Synge

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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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  • In the excitement of the fight they were soon talking about Synge as though Dublin had rejected a Shakespeare.

    The Art of Letters | Robert Lynd

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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