Beckett

Definition of Beckett

Beckett is a surname of Old English origin, meaning 'dweller by the brook'. It is also a given name.

How should Beckett divide into syllables

The word Beckett has two syllables. The first syllable 'Beck' has only one vowel 'e' and two consonants 'B' and 'c'. The second syllable 'ett' has one vowel 'e' and two consonants 't' and 't'.

Part of Speech - Beckett

Samuel Beckett was a famous playwright and author.

Sentences with Beckett

• My friend's last name is Beckett.
• Beckett is a popular name for boys.
• I was named after Samuel Beckett.
• My uncle's first name is Beckett.
• Beckett is a unique and interesting name.
• I changed my surname to Beckett after I got married.
• Beckett is a famous literary name.
• My sister's given name is Beckett.
• Beckett is a cool name for a character in a book.
• My son's middle name is Beckett.

Quotes with Beckett

• I can't go on. I'll go on. - Samuel Beckett
• Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett
• The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. - Samuel Beckett
• All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett
• I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning. - Samuel Beckett
• To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail. - Samuel Beckett
• We are all born mad. Some remain so. - Samuel Beckett
• Nothing is more real than nothing. - Samuel Beckett
• Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. - Samuel Beckett
• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them. - Samuel Beckett
• Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. - Samuel Beckett
• All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. - Samuel Beckett
• Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful. - Samuel Beckett
• Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. - Samuel Beckett
• The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. - Samuel Beckett
• The last time wasn't so bad. How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life. - Samuel Beckett
• Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. - Samuel Beckett
• I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. - Samuel Beckett
• The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said. - Samuel Beckett
• I don't like animals. It's a strange thing, I don't like men and I don't like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me. - Samuel Beckett

Number of characters in Beckett

7 ( b, e, c, k, e, t, t )

Unique letters in Beckett

5 ( b, e, c, k, t )

Beckett Backwards

ttekceb

Phonetic Transcription of Beckett

IPA (International): ˈbekɪt

ARA (American): ˈbɛkɪt

EPA (English): ˈbekɪt

BEH-KIH-T