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Grimm

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Noun

1. grimm, wilhelm grimm, wilhelm karl grimm

the younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859)

2. grimm, jakob grimm, jakob ludwig karl grimm

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)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Grimm

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noun
Jakob Ludwig Karl (ˈjaːkɔp ˈluːtvɪç karl), 1785–1863, and his brother, Wilhelm Karl (ˈvɪlhɛlm karl), 1786–1859, German philologists and folklorists, who collaborated on Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812–22) and began a German dictionary. Jakob is noted also for his philological work Deutsche Grammatik (1819–37), in which he formulated the law named after him

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Grimm

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1. 
ˈJakob (Ludwig Karl) (ˈjɑkɔp ) ; yäˈk^ōp) 1785-1863; Ger. philologist
2. 
ˈWilhelm (Karl) (ˈvɪlhɛlm ) ; vilˈhelm) 1786-1859; Ger. philologist: brother of Jakob, with whom he collaborated in the collection of fairy tales

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Grimm

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German philologist and folklorist who formulated Grimm's Law (1822), the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl (1786-1859) he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812-1815).

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