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NIBELUNG
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Irregular inflected form: nibelungen
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(German mythology) any of the group of dwarfs who possessed a treasure hoard that was stolen by Siegfried
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Nibelung" is a kind of...):
dwarf; gnome (a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure)
Domain category:
mythology (myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person)
Teuton (a member of the ancient Germanic people who migrated from Jutland to southern Gaul and were annihilated by the Romans)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(German mythology) a companion or follower of Siegfried
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)
Domain category:
mythology (myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person)
Teuton (a member of the ancient Germanic people who migrated from Jutland to southern Gaul and were annihilated by the Romans)
