Sidney

Also Syd·ney

[sid-nee]

noun

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

2. a city in N Ohio.

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

Sidney

/ ˈsɪdnɪ /

noun

1. 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)

2. 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

Example Sentences

Before going to trial on a misdemeanor charge, prosecutors failed three times before grand juries to secure an indictment charging Sidney Lori Reid with felony assault.

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Sidney Hook figured it out in 1987: The argument is stacked against capitalism.

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“Hello, Sidney,” a familiar modified voice says in the trailer.

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"It takes a larger amount of Aβ or fibrinogen alone to cause serious damage in the Alzheimer's brain," says Erin Norris, research associate professor in the laboratory of Sidney Strickland at Rockefeller.

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With the guidance of Sidney Hillman, an ally of President Roosevelt, the fund moved unions away from their confrontational past toward a model of “industrial democracy” that recognized the common interests of business and labor.

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