JAKOB LUDWIG KARL GRIMM

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 I. (noun) 

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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))

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