Definition of Dowland

1. Noun. English lutenist and composer of songs for the lute (1563-1626).

Exact synonyms: John Dowland
Generic synonyms: Composer, Lutanist, Lutenist, Lutist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dowland

Dougo
Dover
Dover's powder
Dover's powders
Dovre
Dovyalis
Dovyalis caffra
Dovyalis hebecarpa
Dow
Dow-Jones Industrial Average
Dow Jones
Dowding
Dowe
Dowland (current term)
Down
Down's
Down Easter
Down syndrome
Downe
Downey cell
Downing
Downing Street
Downs' analysis
Dowson
Doxbridge
Doyere's eminence

Literary usage of Dowland

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

1. An Elizabethan Virginal Book: Being a Critical Essay on the Contents of a by Edward Woodall Naylor (1905)
"IN the last chapter our heroes were John Dowland, composer of celebrated ... Fuller says that John Dowland was " a cheerful person, passing his days in ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas, and by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1814)
"... died in the lifetime of the faid Hannah Dowland,- and from the faid Hannah Dowland the right to the faid tenements, with the appurtenances, ..."

3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1907)
"He was back in Rome in 1595, writing to Dowland, July 13,1 and to Don Diego de Campo, Oct. 20,s and in the same year is said to have been appointed to the ..."

4. Seventeenth Century Lyrics by George Saintsbury (1892)
"(84) JOHN Dowland. WHAT poor astronomers are they, Take women's eyes for stars ! And set their thoughts in battle 'ray, To fight such idle wars; ..."

5. Folio (1836)
"Burney admits it hoe been attributed to Dr. Dowland. ... Is it not most probable that Dowland might allude to this very air, and which, having been printed ..."

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