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's landmark drama, The Playboy of the Western World, a story from the west of Ireland, which won rave reviews from London audiences.

From BBC

His 2010 book, “Ghost Light,” chronicled the love affair between a young actress and the playwright John Millington Synge.

From Washington Post

Searching for examples to use in the essay, he remembered having seen — and not entirely understood — a production of Synge’s “Playboy.”

From Washington Post

The roots of the violent proclivities in Martin McDonagh’s scathing contemporary comedies can be traced to Synge’s work.

From Washington Post

Synge, and were produced in collaboration with Poetry Ireland in Dublin, Druid Theater in Galway, the 92nd Street Y in New York and Poet in the City in London.

From New York Times