Definition of Stoppard

1. Noun. British dramatist (born in Czechoslovakia in 1937).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Stoppard

Stokowski
Stolen Generation
Stoli
Stoliczka's mountain vole
Stoliczka's mountain voles
Stollies
Stolly
Stomatopoda
Stone Age
Stonehenge
Stoner
Stonewall
Stonewall Jackson
Stopes
Stoppard
Stoppardian
Storeria
Storeria occipitamaculata
Storm Troops
Stornoway
Stott
Stowe
Strabo
Strachey
Strad
Stradavarius
Stradivari
Stradivarius
Strads

Literary usage of Stoppard

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

1. The Reiester Booke of Saynte De'nis, Backchurch Parishe (city of London) for by Joseph Lemuel Chester (1878)
"... July 15 A child stillborn July 8 Humfrey Knyght, servant to Mr Wood the elder July 26 Elsabeth Blower July 26 Shuan stoppard July 31 Mari ..."

2. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"stoppard.—Local, 'of Stock- port/ a corruption of Stopford, an old name for Stockport ; v. ... From Stopford the popular pronunciation became stoppard. ..."

3. The Publications of the Harleian Society by Harleian Society (1878)
"... Wood the elder July 15 A child stillborn July 26 Shuan stoppard July 26 Elsabeth Blower July ... 10 Danyell stoppard Aug. 11 A child of Mr Poynters Aug. ..."

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