Definition of Odets

1. Noun. United States playwright (1906-1963).

Exact synonyms: Clifford Odets
Generic synonyms: Dramatist, Playwright

Lexicographical Neighbors of Odets

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Octopodidae
Octoroon
Ocyurus
Ocyurus chrysurus
Oddfellow
Oddfellows
Oddi
Oddo-Harkins rule
Odense
Oder
Oder River
Odesa
Odessa
Odets (current term)
Odette
Odia
Odias
Odie
Odin
Odinic
Odinist
Odinists
Odisha
Odland body
Odo of Lagery
Odoacer
Odobenidae
Odobenus

Literary usage of Odets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"Clifford Odets also came back from the Pacific Coast with a new drama called "Clash by Night." Billy Rose produced it as his first experiment with drama, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... 'Hafvet' (1910); OSSIAN-NILSSON, 6s'sl-an-nels'son, •Odets man> (1912) ; Lille Benjamin' (1913); and the metrical drama 'Figel Fenix' (1912). ..."

3. The Revolt of the United Netherlands. With the Trial of Counts Egmont and by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schilleer, Friedrich Schiller, Alexander James William Morrison, L. Dora Schmitz (1897)
"... of Antwerp had had time to strengthen its fortifications, and to provide it with a strong garrison. Furious sallies of the besieged, led by Odets von ..."

4. 54 by Wu Ming (2005)
"... everything is play and fiction, not everything is a stage (see the reference to Clifford Odets) or a film set (see the reference to Alfred Hitchcock). ..."

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