Synge

American  

[sing] / sɪŋ /

noun

1. John Millington 1871–1909, Irish dramatist.

2. Richard Laurence Millington, 1914–96, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1952.

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Synge British  

/ sɪŋ /

noun

1. John Millington. 1871–1909, Irish playwright. His plays, marked by vivid colloquial Irish speech, include Riders to the Sea (1904) and The Playboy of the Western World, produced amidst uproar at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1907

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Example Sentences

Synge, James Joyce and Seán O’Casey—a group that would forever shape Ireland’s art and identity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

Peter Gearóid Cavanagh, 35, of Elmwood Terrace, and Jordan Devine, 21, of Synge Court - both in Londonderry - appeared remotely at Belfast Crown Court from their solicitors' offices.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2023

And there are cumbersome running jokes like one about the playwright John Millington Synge.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2019

Three generations of Carneys fill the house, and with them, figures who seem to wander in from all corners of Ireland’s grand playwriting tradition, from John Millington Synge to Brian Friel.

From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2018

Of what family was Mary Paget, wife of the Rev. Richard Synge, preacher at the Savoy in 1715?

From Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various