Kipling

American

[kip-ling] / ˈkɪp lɪŋ /

noun

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

Kipling British

/ ˈkɪplɪŋ /

noun

( 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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Paul Kipling, who lives on Heol Berry, said there was "no group as such yet", but residents wanted to come together "to try and stop the blasting".

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Priestly is heard asking her colleague Nigel Kipling, played by Stanley Tucci.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

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 ● Oct. 27, 2025

Mirahmadi even has a framed copy of Denman’s favorite poem, If by Rudyard Kipling, in the booth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

The way she used Kipling to love her children before putting them to bed: We be of one blood, thou and I. Her goodnight kiss.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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