Associations to the word «Lindsay»

Wiktionary

LINDSAY, proper noun. A Scottish habitational surname​ from Lindsey in Lincolnshire, from "Lincoln's wetland"
LINDSAY, proper noun. An Irish surname, a variant of Lindsey.
LINDSAY, proper noun. A male given name transferred from the surname.
LINDSAY, proper noun. A female given name used since the 1940s.

Dictionary definition

LINDSAY, noun. United States playwright who collaborated with Russel Crouse on several musicals (1889-1931).
LINDSAY, noun. United States poet who traveled the country trading his poems for room and board (1879-1931).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats