Kipling

American  

[kip-ling] / ˈkɪp lɪŋ /

noun

1. (Joseph) Rudyard 1865–1936, English author: Nobel Prize 1907.

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Kipling British  

/ ˈkɪplɪŋ /

noun

1. ( Joseph ) Rudyard (ˈrʌdjəd). 1865–1936, English poet, short-story writer, and novelist, born in India. His works include Barrack-Room Ballads (1892), the two Jungle Books (1894, 1895), Stalky and Co (1899), Kim (1901), and the Just So Stories (1902): Nobel prize for literature 1907

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Example Sentences

Mr. McDougall justifies his lucid and expansive method by quoting Rudyard Kipling: “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Rudyard Kipling was honored at a dinner at the club on April 2, 1898, where guests enjoyed beef fillet and lamb medallions alongside Chateau Mouton Rothschild, 1882 vintage, according to a menu preserved there.

From The Wall Street Journal

As the most lavish hotel East of Suez, it hosted literary heroes like Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham.

From The Wall Street Journal

He took it from Rudyard Kipling, I think.

From Los Angeles Times

“It comes back to caveat emptor,” Kipling said.

From Salon