Sidney

[ sid-nee ]

noun

1. Sir Philip, 1554–86, English poet, writer, statesman, and soldier.
2. a city in N Ohio.
3. a male or female given name: a family name taken from a French placename, Saint Denis.

Sidney

/ ˈsɪdnɪ /

noun

1. SidneyAlgernon16221683MEnglishPOLITICS: politician Algernon. 1622–83, English Whig politician, beheaded for his supposed part in the Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II and the future James II: author of Discourses Concerning Government (1689)
2. SidneySir Philip15541586MEnglishWRITING: poetMISC: courtierMILITARY: soldier Sir Philip. 1554–86, English poet, courtier, and soldier. His works include the pastoral romance Arcadia (1590), the sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella (1591), and The Defence of Poesie (1595), one of the earliest works of literary criticism in English

Example Sentences

She says he introduced her to Sidney Poitier and promised to help her career.

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Scorsese made movies with De Niro and I was making movies with [Sidney] Lumet.

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“Hillary had [Clinton aide] Sidney Blumenthal call people before my book came out, trashing it,” she says.

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“Sidney always comes in under budget and has it in his contract that he keeps the difference,” he told me, raising his eyebrows.

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His idols and inspirations, he says, were Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte.

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We entered the great park through a gateway near the church where several members of the Sidney family are buried.

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In the picture gallery the majority of the paintings are portraits of the Sidney family.

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How much Sidney hated the Irish service may be learned from his letters, almost every one of which contains a prayer for recall.

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Sidney was reluctant and Elizabeth undecided, and more than a year and a half slipped by without the change being actually made.

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Sidney abandoned Rathlin at once, saying that it was easy at any time to take, but very expensive and useless to keep.

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