Sidney

[ sid-nee ]

/ ˈsɪd ni /

noun

Sir Philip,1554–86, English poet, writer, statesman, and soldier.

a city in N Ohio.

a male or female given name: a family name taken from a French placename, Saint Denis.

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decorum

the act of or need for making up one's mind.

dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.

a company of singers, especially an organized group employed in church service.

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She says he introduced her to Sidney Poitier and promised to help her career.
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“Sidney always comes in under budget and has it in his contract that he keeps the difference,” he told me, raising his eyebrows.
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His idols and inspirations, he says, were Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte.
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I think, under our altered relations, you had better call me Sidney.
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They ses you turned Sidney out of the choir because he teased the maidens.
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Sidney Hinchford knew that he should miss Mattie, and accordingly made up his mind, as he thought, to the loss.
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Lodge was one of the earliest to follow the example of Sidney in linking a sequence of sonnets together into a sonnet-cycle.
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British Dictionary definitions for sidney

Sidney

Sydney

/ (ˈsɪdnɪ) /

noun

Algernon. 1622–83, English Whig politician, beheaded for his supposed part in the Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II and the future James II: author of Discourses Concerning Government (1689)

Sir Philip. 1554–86, English poet, courtier, and soldier. His works include the pastoral romance Arcadia (1590), the sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella (1591), and The Defence of Poesie (1595), one of the earliest works of literary criticism in English

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