Brandeis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Brandeis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɹændaɪs/

Proper noun

Brandeis

  1. A surname transferred from the place name.
    • 2019 March 11, Josh Hafner, “All hipsters look alike? Man claims article's 'hipster' photo is him, only to be mistaken”, in USA Today‎[1], archived from the original on 27 February 2024:
      The "hipster effect," as explained by Brandeis University researchers, goes like this: Those in an anti-conformist population still conform to themselves.

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

Proper noun

Brandeis n (proper noun, genitive Brandeis' or (with an article) Brandeis)

  1. a city in Bohemia, Czech Republic: Brandýs.
    • 1799, Friedrich Schiller, Wallenstein's Lager [Wallenstein's Camp] (Wallenstein trilogy)‎[2]:
      Sah ich's etwa nicht selbst mit an, / Als ich zu Brandeis die Wach' getan, / Wie ihm der Kaiser selbsten erlaubt, / Zu bedecken sein fürstlich Haupt?
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