Gosse

American  

[gaws, gos] / gɔs, gɒs /

noun

1. Sir Edmund William, 1849–1928, English poet, biographer, and critic.

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Gosse British  

/ ɡɒs /

noun

1. Sir Edmund William. 1849–1928, English critic and poet, noted particularly for his autobiographical work Father and Son (1907)

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Example Sentences

The British author Edmund Gosse once defined a biography as “the faithful portrait of a soul in its adventures through life.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2021

Linda Armstrong, 64, was a New Zealander but her life had been far from conventional, her nephew Kyron Gosse says.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2019

Gosse said the loss of a woman with a “huge heart” came only a month after her mother’s death.

From Washington Times • Mar. 21, 2019

“Linda had a huge heart and what little she had, she was more than happy to share with her family and Muslim community,” Mr. Gosse wrote in a tribute to his aunt on Facebook.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2019

Dear Gosse, I went to-day to R. L. S.'s ship, which is at the Albert Dock, about 20 minutes in the train from Fenchurch Street.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry