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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.

• JAKOB GRIMM (noun)

Sense 1

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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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jakob Grimm; Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm; 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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