Hemingway

American  

[hem-ing-wey] / ˈhɛm ɪŋˌweɪ /

noun

1. Ernest (Miller), 1899–1961, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and journalist: Nobel Prize 1954.

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Hemingway British  

/ ˈhɛmɪŋˌweɪ /

noun

1. Ernest. 1899–1961, US novelist and short-story writer. His novels include The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952): Nobel prize for literature 1954

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Hemingway

As Banderas plays him, he’s a bearish marvel of a man with the kind of earthy soul that would have had Ernest Hemingway chugging salty dogs on his barstool all night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

You want an adviser who has the financial aspirations of Warren Buffett — not the literary breadth of Ernest Hemingway.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

Cervecería Alemana is next and Ernest Hemingway followed in the churro-filled footsteps of Valle-Inclán as regulars of this establishment.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026

Writing about the fortifying effect of pairing oysters with cold white wine in “A Moveable Feast,” Ernest Hemingway declared, “I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

This wasn’t Graetz on Jewish history, he told me, or Minkin on Hasidism, or Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dreiser, and Dickens.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok