Synge

[ sing ]

noun
  1. John Mil·ling·ton [mil-ing-tuhn], /ˈmɪl ɪŋ tən/, 1871–1909, Irish dramatist.

  2. Richard Laurence Millington, 1914–96, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1952.

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British Dictionary definitions for Synge

Synge

/ (sɪŋ) /


noun
  1. John Millington. 1871–1909, Irish playwright. His plays, marked by vivid colloquial Irish speech, include Riders to the Sea (1904) and The Playboy of the Western World, produced amidst uproar at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1907

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