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Wilde
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See also: wilde
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwaɪld/, [ˈwaɪə̯ɫd]
Audio (General Australian): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪld
- Homophones: wild, wiled, Wild, Wylde, whiled (some accents)
Proper noun
Wilde
- A surname from Middle English.
- Ellipsis of Oscar Wilde, Irish author, playwright, and poet (1845–1900), whose contemporary literary success, notably A Picture of Dorian Gray, was eventually soured by a gross indecency trial that became a cause célèbre.
- 1986, The Smiths, “Cemetry Gates”, in The Queen is Dead:
- A dread sunny day / So I meet you at the cemetry [sic] gates / Keats and Yeats on your side / While Wilde is on mine
- Ellipsis of Oscar Wilde, Irish author, playwright, and poet (1845–1900), whose contemporary literary success, notably A Picture of Dorian Gray, was eventually soured by a gross indecency trial that became a cause célèbre.
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