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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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

Synge about an elderly Irishwoman who loses her husband and six sons to the sea.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2020

The seed of the play grew while Synge lived in rented rooms on Inishmaan, the largest of the Aran Islands.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2018

Martin had bought books for Anstey, Synge at five shillings a volume.

From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown

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