Amis

American  

[ey-mis] / ˈeɪ mɪs /

noun

1. Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist, noted for satirical comedy.

2. Martin, 1949–2023, English novelist, noted for dark comedy: son of Kingsley Amis.

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Amis British  

/ ˈeɪmɪs /

noun

1. Sir Kingsley . 1922–95, British novelist and poet, noted for his novels Lucky Jim (1954), Jake's Thing (1978), Stanley and the Women (1984), The Old Devils (1986), and The Folks that Live on the Hill (1990)

2. his son, Martin. born 1949, British novelist. His works include The Rachel Papers (1974), Money (1984), London Fields (1989), The Information (1994), Yellow Dog (2003), and Lionel Asbo: State of England (2012)

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Example Sentences

But what, mes amis, is the European alternative?

From The Wall Street Journal

Picked by Granta in 1983 as one of Britain's top 20 young novelists, he stares out of the famous publicity photo alongside Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Rose Tremain, Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, among others.

From BBC

She represented authors including Joanna Trollope, Robert Harris, Margaret Drabble and, for more than 20 years, Amis.

From BBC

Famously, Barnes fell out with Amis, who he'd known since they worked together as journalists at the New Statesman in the 1970s, after Amis ditched Kavanagh as his agent.

From BBC

Martin Amis, who said that he checked on meanings dozens of times every day, explained, “when you look up a word in the dictionary, you own it in a way you didn’t before.”

From The Wall Street Journal