SHERIDAN

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• SHERIDAN (noun)
  The noun SHERIDAN has 1 sense:

1. Irish playwright remembered for his satirical comedies of manners (1751-1816)

  Familiarity information: SHERIDAN used as a noun is very rare.

• SHERIDAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Irish playwright remembered for his satirical comedies of manners (1751-1816)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Sheridan

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

 Context examples 

Sheridan and Francis exchanged glances behind the Prince’s back.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Also called 126–F, Cancell, Cantron, Jim’s Juice, JS–114, Protocel, and Sheridan’s Formula.

(JS–101, NCI Dictionary)

Also called 126–F, Cantron, Jim’s Juice, JS–101, JS–114, Protocel, and Sheridan’s Formula.

(Cancell, NCI Dictionary)

Also called 126–F, Cancell, Cantron, Jim’s Juice, JS–101, Protocel, and Sheridan’s Formula.

(JS–114, NCI Dictionary)

Also called 126–F, Cancell, Cantron, JS–101, JS–114, Protocel, and Sheridan’s Formula.

(Jim’s Juice, NCI Dictionary)

Also called 126–F, Cancell, Jim’s Juice, JS–101, JS–114, Protocel, and Sheridan’s Formula.

(Cantron, NCI Dictionary)

Sheridan Ackiss of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, and collaborators used the orbiter's mineral-mapping spectrometer to investigate surface composition in an oddly textured region of southern Mars called Sisyphi Montes.

(Clues about Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars, NASA)

Standing by the table, with his finger in the page to keep the place, and his right arm flourishing above his head, Traddles, as Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Burke, Lord Castlereagh, Viscount Sidmouth, or Mr. Canning, would work himself into the most violent heats, and deliver the most withering denunciations of the profligacy and corruption of my aunt and Mr. Dick; while I used to sit, at a little distance, with my notebook on my knee, fagging after him with all my might and main.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I was in London at the time,” said Sheridan, gravely.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I gathered from the smile which flitted over Sheridan’s expressive face that this was exactly what Pitt did do.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)