Meaning & use

Gide

proper noun·Advanced

André Gide, a French writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 for his novels and essays.

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Students in the seminar discussed Gide's exploration of personal freedom in his novel The Immoralist.

Gide's diaries offer a candid look at his own moral and artistic struggles.

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Gide is primarily known as a surname; without further context it almost always refers to the French author André Gide.

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