dennis

English - Turkish

Definition of dennis in English Turkish dictionary

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; a derivative of denis or dennis

Bir denis veya dennis türevini

English - English

Definition of dennis in English English dictionary

A patronymic surname

A male given name

Mitchell Peter Dennis Potter Dennis Christopher George Ruth Dennis

given name, male

{i} male first name; family name; John Dennis (1657-1734), British dramatist and critic; town in Massachusetts (USA)

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Dennis Christopher George Potter

born May 17, 1935, Berry Hill, Gloucestershire, Eng. died June 7, 1994, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire British dramatist. Educated at Oxford, he thereafter devoted himself to writing, especially of television plays. His innovative serial Pennies from Heaven (1978) combined fantasy sequences and musical interludes in which actors lip-synched to old recordings of period songs. His best-known teleplay, the eight-part The Singing Detective (1986), an autobiographical account of his crippling bouts of psoriatic arthropathy, combined humour, pathos, and fantastic musical numbers. His other teleplays include the allegedly sacrilegious Brimstone and Treacle (1976, televised 1987) and Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). His movie screenplays include Gorky Park (1983) and Dreamchild (1985)

Dennis Hastert

{i} (born 1942) Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the state of Illinois, Speaker of the House since January 1999 following the resignation of Speaker Newt Gingrich

Dennis Potter

a British writer of plays for television, whose many plays include Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective. He is one of the most important and original writers of plays for television, which often use popular songs as part of serious stories (1935-94). born May 17, 1935, Berry Hill, Gloucestershire, Eng. died June 7, 1994, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire British dramatist. Educated at Oxford, he thereafter devoted himself to writing, especially of television plays. His innovative serial Pennies from Heaven (1978) combined fantasy sequences and musical interludes in which actors lip-synched to old recordings of period songs. His best-known teleplay, the eight-part The Singing Detective (1986), an autobiographical account of his crippling bouts of psoriatic arthropathy, combined humour, pathos, and fantastic musical numbers. His other teleplays include the allegedly sacrilegious Brimstone and Treacle (1976, televised 1987) and Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). His movie screenplays include Gorky Park (1983) and Dreamchild (1985)

J Dennis Hastert

Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the state of Illinois, Speaker of the House since January 1999 following the resignation of Speaker Newt Gingrich

John Dennis

{i} (1657-1734) British dramatist and critic

Peter Dennis Mitchell

born , Sept. 29, 1920, Mitcham, Surrey, Eng. died April 10, 1992, Bodmin, Cornwall British chemist. He discovered how the distribution of enzymes in mitochondrial membranes helps them use energy from hydrogen ions to convert ADP to ATP. He received a 1978 Nobel Prize for formulating the chemiosmotic theory, which explains how energy is generated in the mitochondria of living cells

Hyphenation

Den·nis

Turkish pronunciation

denîs

Pronunciation

/ˈdenəs/ /ˈdɛnɪs/

Etymology

() Old French saint's name Denis, brought to England by Normans; from Latin Dionysius, "follower of (the wine god) Dionysos".