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JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE

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Overview

JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE (noun)
  The noun JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE has 1 sense:

1. Irish poet and playwright whose plays are based on rural Irish life (1871-1909)play

  Familiarity information: JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Irish poet and playwright whose plays are based on rural Irish life (1871-1909)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edmund John Millington Synge; J. M. Synge; John Millington Synge; Synge

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))


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