Gide

American  

[zheed] / ʒid /

noun

1. André (Paul Guillaume) 1869–1951, French novelist, essayist, poet, and critic: Nobel Prize 1947.

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Gide British  

/ ʒid /

noun

1. André (ɑ̃dre). 1869–1951, French novelist, dramatist, critic, diarist, and translator, noted particularly for his exploration of the conflict between self-fulfilment and conventional morality. His novels include L'Immoraliste (1902), La Porte étroite (1909), and Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1926): Nobel prize for literature 1947

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Example Sentences

There were also books studied at school by Marcel Proust, André Gide, Christopher Isherwood, and I felt that the story they were telling was my story.

From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2019

Sellars in the projected titles spelled out much of what Gide implied, that the only solution to anything is compassion.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2019

“The God That Failed,” published in 1950, compiled personal narratives by six former Communists and fellow-travellers, including André Gide, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, and Richard Wright.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 22, 2016

It was Rilke who introduced Pierre to André Gide, for whom he served as a secretary.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2015

On one of my rare visits to school a teacher who taken an interest in me gave me a book by André Gide and asked what I had been reading.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers