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Mann

Mann

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A German writer of novels and essays who writes about artists and middle-class society
  • proper noun
  • /mæn/
: Mann
  • In his novel The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann explores themes of time and existence.
  • Thomas Mann
  • Conrad and Mann

Examples

  • My then favorite authors were Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, and Franz Kafka.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Thomas Mann is widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century.

  • The novelist Thomas Mann once made a grand claim about human beings part in the scheme of things, he wrote.

  • But even the great Thomas Mann could only suggest an approximation for the right balance, the true balance, the losers and the losers.

  • And the two most preeminent congressional scholars, Thomas Mann and Norm Ornstein, have written.

  • You can read about it in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, and that was clearly a sanatorium that wasn't subsidized but was in fact for the social elite.

  • Many readers appreciate the depth of insight found in Thomas Mann's essays on art and society.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Mann comes from an old German word that means 'man' or 'person', just like the English word man. So when you see Thomas Mann, remember his last name is a common German family name that originally meant 'a man'.