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say it: SHER-i-duhn
sheridan is a noun meaning "Irish playwright remembered for his satirical comedies of manners (1751-1816)". It is pronounced /ˈʃɛɹɪdən/ — SHER-i-duhn. It carries one recorded sense.
Irish playwright remembered for his satirical comedies of manners (1751-1816)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sheridan come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.