Coleridge

American  

[kohl-rij] / ˈkoʊl rɪdʒ /

noun

1. Samuel Taylor, 1772–1834, English poet, critic, and philosopher.

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Coleridge British  

/ ˈkəʊlərɪdʒ /

noun

1. Samuel Taylor. 1772–1834, English Romantic poet and critic, noted for poems such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Kubla Khan (1816), and Christabel (1816), and for his critical work Biographia Literaria (1817)

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Other Word Forms

• Coleridgian adjective

Example Sentences

Mr. Holmes shows how the unstable and morose Tennyson, born in the wild Romantic age of Byron, Coleridge and Shelley, grew into the settled and self-satisfied voice of Victorian England.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

For a minute, the film seems to invoke Samuel Coleridge: “Death came with friendly care.”

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2025

Ron Hale, the soap opera actor who famously played Mike Corbin on ‘General Hospital’ and Dr. Rodger Coleridge on ‘Ryan’s Hope,’ has died.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024

A report of the investigation, overseen by Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge, had been sent to the Vatican where the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith was continuing to investigate, Costelloe said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2023

Even in 1801 we can still catch Coleridge resolving that ‘before my thirtieth year I will thoroughly understand the whole of Newton’s works.’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton