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I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are Edward Bond, Joe Orton and Harold Pinter. I've been in six different Pinter productions - I love the clarity of his language. He has this way of using words - there's a thrill to them.
Kenneth Cranham

Meaning of "Pinter" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PINTER

Pinter  [ˈpɪntə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PINTER

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Pinter is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PINTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter, CH, CBE was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, and Betrayal, each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant, The Go-Between, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Trial, and Sleuth. He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works. Pinter was born and raised in Hackney, east London, and educated at Hackney Downs School. He was a sprinter and a keen cricket player, acting in school plays and writing poetry. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but did not complete the course. He was fined for refusing National Service as a conscientious objector. Subsequently, he continued training at the Central School of Speech and Drama and worked in repertory theatre in Ireland and England. In 1956 he married actress Vivien Merchant and had a son, Daniel born in 1958.

Definition of Pinter in the English dictionary

The definition of Pinter in the dictionary is Harold. 1930–2008, English dramatist. His plays, such as The Caretaker, The Homecoming, No Man's Land, Moonlight, and Celebration, are noted for their equivocal and halting dialogue: Nobel prize for literature 2005.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PINTER


carpenter
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fainter
ˈfeɪntə
hinter
ˈhɪntə
imprinter
ɪmˈprɪntə
jointer
ˈdʒɔɪntə
linter
ˈlɪntə
midwinter
ˈmɪdˈwɪntə
minter
ˈmɪntə
overwinter
ˌəʊvəˈwɪntə
painter
ˈpeɪntə
pinta
ˈpɪntə
pointer
ˈpɔɪntə
printer
ˈprɪntə
quinta
ˈkɪntə
sinter
ˈsɪntə
splinter
ˈsplɪntə
sprinter
ˈsprɪntə
teleprinter
ˈtɛlɪˌprɪntə
tinter
ˈtɪntə
winter
ˈwɪntə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PINTER

Pinteresque
pintle
pinto
pinto bean
Pintoricchio
Pintubi
Pinturicchio

WORDS THAT END LIKE PINTER

appointer
center
colour printer
daisy-wheel printer
disinter
dot matrix printer
dot-matrix printer
house painter
image printer
impact printer
ink-jet printer
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landscape painter
laser printer
line printer
matrix printer
non-impact printer
nuclear winter
portrait painter
reinter
thermal printer

Synonyms and antonyms of Pinter in the English dictionary of synonyms

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品特
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Pinter
570 millions of speakers

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Pinter
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पिंटर
380 millions of speakers
ar

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بينتر
280 millions of speakers

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Пинтер
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Pinter
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পিন্টার
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Pinter
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Pinter
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Pinter
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ピンター
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핀터
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Pinter
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Pinter
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பிண்டர்
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पिंटर
75 millions of speakers

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Pinter
70 millions of speakers

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Pinter
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Pinter
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Пінтер
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Pinter
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Πίντερ
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Pinter
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Pinter
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Pinter
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Pinter

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2 QUOTES WITH «PINTER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Pinter.
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Kenneth Cranham
I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are Edward Bond, Joe Orton and Harold Pinter. I've been in six different Pinter productions - I love the clarity of his language. He has this way of using words - there's a thrill to them.
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Tom Stoppard
In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PINTER»

Discover the use of Pinter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Pinter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Harold Pinter
This new edition includes a full transcript of the Nobel lecture, as well as an additional chapter written in the aftermath of Harold Pinter's death in December 2008.
Michael Billington, 2009
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Pinter: a collection of critical essays
Essays to help you understand and appreciate the plays of Harold Pinter.
Arthur F. Ganz, 1972
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Pinter's Female Portraits: A Study of the Female Characters ...
The book traces the development of Pinter's female characters both as dramatis personae and as theatrical functionaries.
Elizabeth Sakellaridou, 1988
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Harold Pinter's Politics: A Silence Beyond Echo
Harold Pinter's Politics examines the expression of Pinter's political beliefs across every aspect and era of his artistic career.
Charles Grimes, 2005
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The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter
Pinter uncertainly put it in 1989, I'm only concerned at the moment with accurate and precise images of what is the case. I can no longer write a play about a family and what happens to it, except that in One for the Road, I remind you, the man, ...
Peter Raby, 2009
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Conversations with Pinter
Published in full for the first time, a drama critic for the "New York Times" presents a series of interviews beginning in 1971 and spanning more than twenty years featuring the Nobel Prize-winning author's views on work, life, plays, and ...
Harold Pinter, Mel Gussow, 1996
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A Book of Abstract Algebra: Second Edition
Accessible but rigorous, this outstanding text encompasses all of the topics covered by a typical course in elementary abstract algebra.
Charles C Pinter, 2012
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Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter
This collection of essays focuses on one of Harold Pinter's most popular and challenging plays, "The Dumb Waiter," while addressing also a range of significant issues current in Pinter studies and which are applicable beyond this play.
Mary F. Brewer, 2009
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The Dramatic World of Harold Pinter: Its Basis in Ritual
A critical analysis of Pinter's use of imagery and realism in his plays
Katherine H. Burkman, 1971
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Pinter in play: critical strategies and the plays of Harold ...
Pinter in Play provides a survey of diverse readings of the Harold Pinter canon organized around and presented in terms of the major critical schools of the past twenty-five years, from New Criticism to deconstruction to poststructuralism.
Susan Hollis Merritt, 1990

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PINTER»

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Siri Pinter makes easy miniature muffin tin fruit pies
TODAY Food is offering a week of delicious dessert recipes and to kick things off, food blogger and cook Siri Pinter is in the TODAY kitchen to ... «Press Release Rocket, Jul 15»
2
Jewish educators called to UK authority meeting on Rosh Hashana
Rabbi Avroham Pinter, the principal of Yesodey Hatorah School in London's Stamford Hill neighborhood, told The Jerusalem Post that Ofsted ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
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Exits and Entrances: Big Changes at Three Dallas Theaters
With just five shows scheduled next season – starting September 11 with Harold Pinter's taut one-act two-hander The Dumb Waiter, starring ... «Dallas Observer, Jul 15»
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Full casting announced for Photograph 51
Stephen Campbell Moore's theatre work includes Chimerica (Almeida Theatre and Harold Pinter Theatre), Berenice (Donmar Warehouse) and ... «WhatsOnStage.com, Jul 15»
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City brings out best in Coquitlam captain
Blane Donaldson (with two goals), Jalen Chaster, Jordan Taylor and Cody Johnston also scored for Coquitlam. Nick Hannay, Nicky Pinter and ... «Prince George Citizen, Jul 15»
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The Edge: Baz jets off to Marbs before start of show
It was here at this restaurant on Merrion Row that Harold Pinter had his 75th birthday bash in 2005 and Brian Friel had his 80th birthday party ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
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Brunel's grave could be on route of a new railway line
Other famous names whose graves are in the cemetery include playwright Harold Pinter, Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope and Charles ... «Bristol Post, Jul 15»
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The five best British films
... caustic precision, and Losey's chilly characterizations are that much more incisive thanks to a characteristically enigmatic Harold Pinter script. «Chicago Reader, Jul 15»
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The Playwright's Playground – The Playmakers CATF 2015: Part 5 …
But when my father took me off-Broadway (in the 1960s) to see Pinter and Beckett and John Arden and Brecht, and in particular Albee's Zoo ... «DC Metro Theater Arts, Jul 15»
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The Homecoming: classic Pinter in Venice Beach
VENICE BEACH might seem a world away from the dreary realities of British life which Harold Pinter was so adept at creating, but a new ... «British Weekly, Jul 15»

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