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Definition of Sidney
1. Noun. English poet (1554-1586).
Definition of Sidney
1. Proper noun. (surname from=Old English) ¹
2. Proper noun. (surnames male given name), transferred from the surname. Used since the 18th century; diminutive Sid. ¹
3. Proper noun. (surnames female given name), twentieth century usage, more often in the spelling Sydney. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sidney
Literary usage of Sidney
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"His diplomatic missions were highly successful, and sidney soon found himself
... Two months later sidney went to the Low Countries, and the following year ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"But what cost sidney his life were his scathing words on the " vermin of a Court"
and the way titles were earned nowadays. ..."
3. The Bookman (1907)
"sidney McCall MARY M'NEILL FENOLLOSA (sidney M'CALL) A pseudonym which caused an
unusual amount of conjecture a few years ago was sidney McCall, ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"The circumstances of sidney Lanier's sidney LANIER life furnish a pathetically
tragic ... sidney was educated at Oglethorpe College in his native State. ..."
5. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Henry Hart Milman (1865)
"His principal 1688. coadjutor in this work was Henry sidney, brother of Henry
... It is remarkable that both Edward Russell and Henry sidney had been in the ..."
6. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"Cf. sidney, ip 172, 11. 25-30, note. The passage here quoted is from ... A direct
echo of sidney, ip 206,11.16-18. 204. 6-14. Cf. sidney, ip 173,1.22, ..."
7. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan (1850)
"His principal coadjutor in this work was Henry sidney, brother of Algernon.
It is remarkable that both Edward Russell and Henry sidney had been in the ..."
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