Irving

[ur-ving]

noun

1. Sir Henry John Henry Brodribb, 1838–1905, English actor.

2. John, born 1942, U.S.-Canadian novelist, born in the United States.

3. Washington, 1783–1859, U.S. essayist, story writer, and historian.

4. a city in northeastern Texas, near Dallas.

5. a male given name.

Irving

/ ˈɜːvɪŋ /

noun

1. Sir Henry. real name John Henry Brodribb. 1838–1905, English actor and manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London (1878–1902)

2. Washington. 1783–1859, US essayist and short-story writer, noted for The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1820), which contains the stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Example Sentences

That changed in 2023 when Dr. Thu-Thuy Dang and her team in the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science identified the first plant enzyme capable of twisting a molecule into the distinctive spiro shape.

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It operates 1,300 stores in North America and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

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For high school, the aspiring artist attended Washington Irving, one of the first women’s vocational schools in the city.

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Featuring an insanely infectious jingle by composer Irving Berlin, "I like Ike" was a Disney cartoon aimed at the broadest possible audience,

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“It was hard to go back to work,” says the actor, who plays Mark’s Lumon co-worker Irving.

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