Synge
Americannoun
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John Millington 1871–1909, Irish dramatist.
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Richard Laurence Millington, 1914–96, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1952.
noun
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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
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
People were sympathetic, Synge speculated, because the criminal had clearly been distraught.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2018
Mr. Arthur Baker, Mr. Harold Lewis, Miss Synge, and members of the postal and telegraph, staff, also spoke.
From The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone by Tombs, Robert Charles
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