[ruhd-yerd] /ˈrʌd yərd/ (Show IPA), 1865–1936, English author: Nobel Prize 1907.
Examples from the web for Kipling
The word was made popular by the colonial tales of rudyard Kipling.
British Dictionary definitions for Kipling
Kipling
/ˈkɪplɪŋ/
noun
1.
(Joseph) Rudyard (ˈrʌdjəd). 1865–1936, English poet, short-story writer, and novelist, born in India. His works include Barrack-Room Ballads (1892), the two Jungle Books (1894, 1895), Stalky and Co (1899), Kim (1901), and the Just So Stories (1902): Nobel prize for literature 1907