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GRIMM

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863)

Synonyms:

Grimm; Jakob Grimm; Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm

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Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

linguist; linguistic scientist (a specialist in linguistics)

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859)

Synonyms:

Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm; Wilhelm Karl Grimm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

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