Definitions for pinter
ˈpɪn tərpin·ter

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1. Pinter, Harold Pinternoun

   English dramatist whose plays are characterized by silences and the use of inaction (born in 1930)

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1. pinternoun

   The drinking of a certain number of pints of beer

2. pinternoun

   A container that holds a certain number of pints.

3. pinternoun

   Something that takes a certain number of pints of beer to appreciate.

   She's so ugly, an eight-pinter, I'd say.

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1. Pinter

   Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964) and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993) and Sleuth (2007). 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. He left Merchant in 1975 and married author Lady Antonia Fraser in 1980. Pinter's career as a playwright began with a production of The Room in 1957. His second play, The Birthday Party, closed after eight performances but was enthusiastically reviewed by critic Harold Hobson. His early works were described by critics as "comedy of menace". Later plays such as No Man's Land (1975) and Betrayal (1978) became known as "memory plays". He appeared as an actor in productions of his own work on radio and film, and directed nearly 50 productions for stage, theatre and screen. Pinter received over 50 awards, prizes and other honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005 and the French Légion d'honneur in 2007. Despite frail health after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in December 2001, Pinter continued to act on stage and screen, last performing the title role of Samuel Beckett's one-act monologue Krapp's Last Tape, for the 50th anniversary season of the Royal Court Theatre, in October 2006. He died from liver cancer on 24 December 2008.

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1. pinter

   Pinter is generally referred to in the context of Harold Pinter, an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, theatre director, and Nobel laureate. In broader terms, a "Pinter" could refer to anything related to or reminiscent of Harold Pinter's works, but it's not commonly used in this way. The term "Pinteresque," referring to characteristics typical of his work such as eeriness, ominous dialogue, and uncertainty, is more common.

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1. PINTER

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pinter is ranked #8920 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Pinter surname appeared 3,669 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Pinter.
   
   88.9% or 3,263 total occurrences were White.
   8.2% or 302 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1% or 39 total occurrences were Black.
   0.8% or 32 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.6% or 23 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.2% or 10 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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1. • Dramatist

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How to pronounce pinter?

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Oliver

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How to say pinter in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pinter in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pinter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of pinter in a Sentence

1. Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge:

   I've worked with Pinter for more or less 10 years, almost exclusively really ... He was a great mentor, a great friend, almost a father figure to me, i've loved this play ... I think it's probably one of the best plays in the last 50 years.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=pinter
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pinter
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinter
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=pinter