Zellner

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proper noun

A surname from German.

UncommonScrabble 16

Meanings

proper nounZellner (plural Zellners)

plural Zellners

  1. A surname from German.
    2 more examples

    In recent years, Hillel chapters have also come under fire for withdrawing support from or further marginalizing queer Jewish student groups that participate in events co-sponsored by JVP, and for banning legendary civil rights activist Dorothy Zellner from speaking at campus chapters after she discussed her commitment to Palestinian human rights work in a speech at Harvard’s Hillel.

    2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2020

    Near the end of Sasquatch Sunset, the gloriously weird feature from David and Nathan Zellner, Riley Keough wordlessly conveys a slowly creeping moment of profound existential despair that crushes your heart with its bleakness. […] It’s not the first time that the Zellners have ventured into the world of the sasquatch – the directors, who describe themselves as bigfoot fans from childhood, made a short film titled Sasquatch Birth Journal 2, which screened at Sundance in 2011.

    2024 June 16, Wendy Ide, “Sasquatch Sunset review – brilliant bigfoot oddity is unexpectedly moving”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2024

Origin

  1. GermanZellner
  2. EnglishZellner

Borrowed from German Zellner.

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APA

Zellner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zellner

MLA

“Zellner.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zellner. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Zellner,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zellner.

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