VERNER

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• VERNER (noun)
  The noun VERNER has 1 sense:

1. Danish philologist (1846-1896)

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

• VERNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Danish philologist (1846-1896)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Karl Adolph Verner; Verner

Instance hypernyms:

philologist; philologue (a humanist specializing in classical scholarship)

 Context examples 

A young doctor, named Verner, had purchased my small Kensington practice, and given with astonishingly little demur the highest price that I ventured to ask—an incident which only explained itself some years later, when I found that Verner was a distant relation of Holmes, and that it was my friend who had really found the money.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)