Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

MacDiarmid

American  
[muhk-dur-mid] / məkˈdɜr mɪd /

noun

  1. Hugh Christopher Murray Grieve, 1892–1978, Scottish poet.


MacDiarmid British  
/ məkˈdɜːmɪd /

noun

  1. Hugh, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve. 1892–1978, Scottish poet; a founder of the Scottish National Party. His poems include A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

MacDiarmid agreed to transport the artifact to the United States in early June.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2021

McIntosh echoes an earlier writer of the Highlands, Hugh MacDiarmid, by raising the question of what a small island might bring to a bigger one.

From The Guardian • Sep. 26, 2017

Founded in 1934 by intellectuals like the fiercely anti-English, republican poet, Hugh MacDiarmid, it gained little traction until the mid 1970s.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2014

Rob McKay, a glacial sedimentologist at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, won the 2011 Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist prize in December for research on Antarctica's climate and environmental history.

From Nature • Jan. 25, 2012

Scottish poetry, Editor MacDiarmid points out, is capable of being both genuinely literary, and popular with the common people�something that English poetry has never succeeded in being.

From Time Magazine Archive

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember "MacDiarmid" for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com