Floyd

American  

[floid] / flɔɪd /

noun

1. Carlisle (Sessions, Jr.), 1926–2021, U.S. composer, especially of operas.

2. a male given name, form of Lloyd.

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Example Sentences

In 2020, the murder of George Floyd ignited a nationwide reckoning on race, which prompted communities and institutions across the nation, including California, to remove public monuments of former slaveholders or prominent Confederate figures.

From Los Angeles Times

Floyd Lumley found his way to Indianapolis too, as you know from the cartoons he drew for the Indianapolis Star newspaper in his famous career.

From Literature

Both Floyd and Lloyd married Indianapolis wives: strictly city girls who’d gone to Butler University and bobbed their hair.

From Literature

We’d get together to laugh and live over the old days when we and the twentieth century were young: Floyd and Lloyd and Lester and their wives, Charlie and Pearl Parr, me and Beulah, Tansy and Glenn.

From Literature

“Flop – Floyd Lumley, ascend the rostrum and write the letter A on the blackboard.”

From Literature