wasserman
wasserman noun: a mythical sea monster, part man, thought to destroy ships.
Noun
wasserman (plural wassermen)
- A mythical sea monster, part man, thought to destroy ships.
- The dreadfull Fish, that hath deseru'd the name
Of Death, and like him lookes in dreadfull hew,
The griesly Wasserman, that makes his game
The flying ships with swiftnesse to pursew […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- The dreadfull Fish, that hath deseru'd the name
Proper noun capitalized: Wasserman
Wasserman (plural Wassermans)
- A surname from German, equivalent to English Waterman.
- When Lew Wasserman reinvented the studio system, leadership skills grew harder to find and the number of modern studio conglomerates boiled down to six, as discussed in chapters 15 to 20.2019, Douglas Gomery, The Hollywood Studio System: A History, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN
Forms of wasserman
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wassermen |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Wassermans |
Origin of wasserman
Borrowed from German Wassermann.
Questions about wasserman
- What does wasserman mean?
- Wasserman means a mythical sea monster, part man, thought to destroy ships.
- What part of speech is wasserman?
- Wasserman can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of wasserman?
- The plural of wasserman is wassermen.
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