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GOETHE

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Overview

GOETHE (noun)
  The noun GOETHE has 1 sense:

1. German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832)play

  Familiarity information: GOETHE used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


GOETHE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Goethe; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

novelist (one who writes novels)

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Derivation:

Goethean; Goethian (of or relating to or in the manner of Goethe)


 Context examples 


I saw Goethe's house, Schiller's statue, and Dannecker's famous 'Ariadne.'

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Kirsten Hilger, Christian Fiebach and Ulrike Basten from the Department of Psychology at Goethe University Frankfurt combined functional MRI brain scans from over 300 persons with modern graph theoretical network analysis methods to investigate the neurobiological basis of human intelligence.

(Smart People Have Better Connected Brains, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

As Goethe, when he had a joy or a grief, put it into a song, so Laurie resolved to embalm his love sorrow in music, and to compose a Requiem which should harrow up Jo's soul and melt the heart of every hearer.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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