Sidney
Americannoun
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Sir Philip, 1554–86, English poet, writer, statesman, and soldier.
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a city in N Ohio.
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a male or female given name: a family name taken from a French placename, Saint Denis.
noun
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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)
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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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The following day, police sergeant Sidney Short served him with a summons.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Pierre’s Stewart holds the gravitas of that portrayal while also capturing the original intent of his character’s co-creator, Neal Adams, to have him evoke a young Sidney Poitier.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
After the guilty verdicts Det Ch Insp Richard Sidney said his thoughts were the three young victims.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Goldman Sachs’ senior partner Sidney Weinberg was a close adviser, and in 1956 he guided Ford Motor to a record-setting $657.9 External link million IPO.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Sidney Goldberg nodded to me, and the two of us went over to them.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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