Griffith
Americannoun
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Arthur, 1872–1922, Irish nationalist leader: a founder of Sinn Fein.
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D(avid Lewelyn) W(ark) 1875–1948, U.S. film director and producer.
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a town in NW Indiana.
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a male given name, form of Griffin.
noun
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Arthur. 1872–1922, Irish journalist and nationalist: founder of Sinn Féin (1905); president of the Free State assembly (1922)
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D ( avid Lewelyn ) W ( ark ). 1875–1948, US film director and producer. He introduced several cinematic techniques, including the flashback and the fade-out, in his masterpiece The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Example Sentences
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“Many of the farmers are struggling,” said Griffith, who has been selling his produce at the Central Avenue Farmers Market for 15 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Thirty minutes later, I was in the 1970s version of Sheriff Andy Taylor’s office from ”The Andy Griffith Show.”
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
“That’s where people can get really tripped up because they’re going to say, ‘Well, I didn’t sell it,’” said Daniele Griffith, director of tax operations at April, a tax platform for wealth-management firms and banks.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
The closest star, Proxima Centauri, is marked at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles to reflect its true distance.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Griffith approached the problem by focusing on the microbe: Why was pneumococcus so fatal to animals?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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