Definition of Hoffmannsthal

1. Noun. German poet who wrote libretti for operas by Richard Strauss (1874-1929).

Exact synonyms: Hugo Von Hoffmannsthal
Generic synonyms: Poet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoffmannsthal

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Hoek van Holland
Hoenir
Hofbauer cell
Hofei
Hoff
Hoffa
Hoffman
Hoffmann
Hoffmann's duct
Hoffmann's muscular atrophy
Hoffmann's phenomenon
Hoffmann's reflex
Hoffmann's sign
Hoffmannsthal
Hofmann's bacillus
Hofmeister's operation
Hofmeister-Polya anastomosis
Hofmeister gastrectomy
Hofmeister series
Hofstadterian
Hogarth
Hogarthian
Hogmanay
Hogness box
Hogrebe
Hogtown
Hogwarts

Literary usage of Hoffmannsthal

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

1. A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel (1919)
"Hugo von hoffmannsthal had aided Strauss in this brew and collaborated with him in ... It would have been wise, very wise indeed, had hoffmannsthal avoided ..."

2. A Second Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel (1917)
"Hugo von hoffmannsthal had aided Strauss in this brew and collaborated with him in the next, which, it was hoped, probably because of the difference in its ..."

3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1908)
"46: 71. D. 'OS. Hoffmann, Otto. Problem of the rotation of Venus. Scl. Am. S. 66: 206-7. S. 26, '08. hoffmannsthal, Hugo von. ..."

4. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1916)
"PLAYS : Madonna Dianora, by Hugo Von hoffmannsthal. Translated from the German by Harriet Betty Boas. Richard C. Badger. The Pageant of Yankton, ..."

5. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1914)
"The relation of another Austrian dramatist, hoffmannsthal, to Greek tragedy in his tragedies Electra and Œdipus, has been ably discussed by George W. Baker ..."

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