Pinter

American  

[pin-ter] / ˈpɪn tər /

noun

1. Harold, 1930–2008, English playwright.

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Pinter British  

/ ˈpɪntə /

noun

1. Harold. 1930–2008, English dramatist. His plays, such as The Caretaker (1959), The Homecoming (1964), No Man's Land (1974), Moonlight (1993), and Celebration (2000), are noted for their equivocal and halting dialogue: Nobel prize for literature 2005

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Other Word Forms

• Pinteresque
  adjective

Example Sentences

In the past the village only would have only brief summer interruptions to the water supply to "one or two higher-lying streets", according to mayor Lajos Pinter.

From Barron's • Jun. 30, 2026

No one would ever confuse Harold Pinter with Jean Genet, or Beckett with Ionesco for that matter.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

They all may as well have sprung from the combined neo-gothic conjurings of Edward Gorey and Harold Pinter.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

Stefan Pinter, the union head at OKD's CSM mine, blamed "a decline in the use of fossil fuels and coal prices which make mining unprofitable".

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

I do hope Harold Pinter knows about all this, by the way; who would have thought the pause had such a long and significant history?

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author