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

In fact, “Marshlands” was written by the French novelist and journalist Gide, whose career extended from the late 19th century to his death in 1951.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2021

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

André Gide, the French Marxist writer, contributed the text.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2019

To drive home her frustration, Sotomayor cited André Gide, a gay French novelist and critic who won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2018

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