Definition of Hermann

1. Noun. German hero; leader at the battle of Teutoburger Wald in AD 9 (circa 18 BC - AD 19).

Exact synonyms: Armin, Arminius
Generic synonyms: German, Hero

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hermann

Hering's theory of colour vision
Hering-Breuer reflex
Heritiera
Heritiera littoralis
Heritiera macrophylla
Heritiera trifoliolata
Herkimer
Herlitz
Herlitz syndrome
Herm
Herman
Herman Hollerith
Herman Melville
Herman Northrop Frye
Herman Wouk
Hermann (current term)
Hermann's fixative
Hermann Goering
Hermann Goring
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Joseph Muller
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz
Hermann Maurice Saxe
Hermann Minkowski
Hermann Snellen
Hermann Wilhelm Goring
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermannia
Hermannia verticillata
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome

Literary usage of Hermann

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"Oh, never Saw I Hermann so lovely! Never such fire in his eyes! Come! I tremble for joy; ... Drinks his nectar; for Hermann, Hermann immortal is found! ..."

2. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1877)
"Hermann The remainder of the story is curious. Hermann, dis- monk at pleased at being thus balked when he thought himself ^** so near success, gave up, ..."

3. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"Hermann, having triumphed over the legions of Varus, returns, bearing the spoils of victory, to sacrifice on the altars of his ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Hermann is the author of a few historical works, of which the chief is the " Annales Hermann!", reaching from 1137 to 1273. Up to 1146 they are based on ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Cropper was an adherent of Erasmus, and aided the At First a reform efforts of Hermann von Wied, Follower archbishop of Cologne (see Hermann of Erasmus. ..."

6. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"Hermann und Dorothea (1797), again, is perfect of its kind, harmonious, irreproachable; it is a classic poem, although its classicism is clearly different ..."

7. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1857)
"He was educated in the gymnasium and university of Leipsic; trained for a classical teacher in the philological seminary of Hermann and Klotz. ..."

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