Stoppard

American  

[stop-erd] / ˈstɒp ərd /

noun

1. Tom Thomas Straussler, born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.

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Stoppard British  

/ ˈstɒpɑːd /

noun

1. Sir Tom, original name Thomas Straussler born 1937, British playwright, born in Czechoslovakia: his works include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967), Travesties (1974), Hapgood (1988), The Invention of Love (1997), and the trilogy The Coast of Utopia (2002)

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Example Sentences

Milne, like Lewis Carroll, was trained as a mathematician, and some of his dialogue reads like Tom Stoppard doing Wittgenstein: “How are you?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Not since “The Importance of Being Earnest,” a play that Stoppard revered the way a mathematician would regard the world’s most elegant proof, has the English stage experienced such high-flying chat.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2025

There his mother met and married an Englishman, a Major Kenneth Stoppard, before moving to England.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2025

When I interviewed Stoppard at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater during rehearsals for his play “The Hard Problem,” he told me that he didn’t think he ever spent more than half an hour on research.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2025

Chuck Stoppard never looked away from his game.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley