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Definition of Grimm

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

2. Noun. 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).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grimm

Griffiths Grifola frondosa Grignard Grignard reaction Grignard reactions Grignard reagent Grignard reagents Grigori Efimovich Rasputin Grigoris Griko

Grim Grim Reaper Grime Grimes Grimes' golden Grimm Grimm's law Grims Grimsby Grindelia robusta

Grindelia squarrosa Gringolandia Griqua Griquas Grisel's syndrome Griselda Griselinia Griselinia littoralis Griselinia lucida Grisolle's sign

Literary usage of Grimm

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

1. Graded Literature Readers by Harry Pratt Judson, Ida C. Bender (1900)
"FOURTH READER The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean BY THE BROTHERS grimm Jakob grimm ... The Brothers grimm, as they are familiarly called, wrote many learned ..."

2. Men of the Time: Biographical Sketches of Eminent Living Characters ... Also (1859)
"grimm, WILHELM KARL, the younger of the " Brothers grimm," was born at Hanau, ... For the last twenty years, the brothers grimm have been engaged in the ..."

3. Catalogue of the Manuscript Maps, Charts, and Plans, and of the by John Holmes, Frederic Madden, British Museum Dept. of Manuscripts, British Museum (1844)
"grimm, in Sept. 1790: 11 in. x 7j in. [PR Kaye, i. 167.] An east view, in Indian ink ... A view, in Indian ink, of Weymouth Bay; drawn by SH grimm, in Sept. ..."

4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1881)
"... also include the standard juveniles which are now classic— "Tom Brown," " Ivanhoe," "grimm" and "Andersen ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In this work grimm showed the importance of a linguistic study of the old ... Even grimm himself did not at first intend to include all the languages in bis ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"We have lately talked with Albert Gerdsen, now over eighty years old and a neighbor of Mr. grimm, and he says that grimm's log stable was always well filled ..."

7. Bulletin by New Jersey, Dept. of Agriculture, New Jersey Dept. of Agriculture (1918)
"OT the variegated alfalfas the most prominent is grimm. ... As a matter of fact, we find that grimm alfalfa will not produce as high a yield in warm ..."

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