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Definitions: Grimm |
GrimmNoun1. The younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859). 2. 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). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Grimm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
"Grimm" is a common misspelling or typo for: gram, grim, grime, grimy. |
Synonyms: GrimmSynonyms: Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm (n), Wilhelm Karl Grimm (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Grimm |
| English words defined with "Grimm": Grimm's law ♦ Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm ♦ Rumpelstiltskin ♦ Wilhelm Karl Grimm. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Grimm": Grethel. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Grimm" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (fierceness, fury, ire, wrath). |
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Screenplays | Aw, you know Grimm, it means flowers for the dead. (Quick Change; writing credit: Howard Franklin) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) Grimm (2003) Nathan Grimm (1998) Mother Goose & Grimm (1992) Grimm meisaku gekijô (1987) | |
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 | J.F. Blumenbach. / Grimm del. Wachsmann sc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | J.W.H. Conradi. / L.E. Grimm fec. ad vivum Cassel. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Mother Goose and Grimm. You're a sick, disgusting, vulgar little dog and I want you to sit somewhere else / Mike Peters. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Grimm" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.78% of the time. "Grimm" is used about 166 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 95.78% | 159 | 24,860 |
| Interjection | 4.22% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 166 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Grimm" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Grimm | Last name | 8,000 | 1,517 |
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Expressions using "Grimm": Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm ♦ Wilhelm Karl Grimm. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Grimm": grimmer, grimmest. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Grimm": begrimmed, begrimming. (additional references) | |
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"Grimm" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gainmh, Gremmo, grimn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-m-m-r" | |
-1 letter: grim. | |
-2 letters: mig, mim, mir, rig, rim. | |
-3 letters: mi, mm. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-m-m-r" | |
+1 letter: megrim. | |
+2 letters: gammier, gemmier, glimmer, gremmie, grimmer, gummier, immerge, megrims, ramming, rimming. | |
+3 letters: aglimmer, brimming, cramming, dramming, drumming, glimmers, gremmies, grimmest, immerged, immerges, immuring, primming, tramming, trimming. | |
+4 letters: begrimmed, germanium, gimmickry, glimmered, hammering, immerging, immersing, immigrant, immigrate, mammering, microgram, milligram, mridangam, multigerm, murmuring, rehemming, rummaging, scramming, scrimmage, scrumming, simmering, strumming, summering, thrumming, trimmings, yammering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 72 69 6D 6D |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-. .. -- -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01110010 01101001 01101101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G r i m m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0072 0069 006D 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4184757979 |
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