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JAKOB GRIMM
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• JAKOB GRIMM (noun)
The noun JAKOB GRIMM has 1 sense:
1. 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)
Familiarity information: JAKOB GRIMM used as a noun is very rare.
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)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Grimm; Jakob Grimm; Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm
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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