wasserman

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noun

A mythical sea monster, part man, thought to destroy ships.

OriginGerman Wassermann →
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Meanings

wasserman1

nounwasserman (plural wassermen)

plural wassermen

  1. obsoleteA 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

Wasserman2

proper nounWasserman (plural Wassermans)

plural Wassermans

  1. 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

Origin

wasserman · noun

  1. GermanWassermann
  2. Englishwasserman

Borrowed from German Wassermann.

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Wasserman · proper noun

  1. GermanWassermann
  2. EnglishWasserman

Borrowed from German Wassermann.

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 沃瑟曼
  • 沃瑟曼 (Wòsèmàn)surname
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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