BRAUN

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• BRAUN (noun)
  The noun BRAUN has 2 senses:

1. the German mistress of Adolf Hitler (1910-1945)

2. United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977)

  Familiarity information: BRAUN used as a noun is rare.

• BRAUN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The German mistress of Adolf Hitler (1910-1945)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Braun; Eva Braun

Instance hypernyms:

fancy woman; kept woman; mistress (an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Braun; von Braun; Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun; Wernher von Braun

Instance hypernyms:

rocket engineer; rocket scientist (an engineer who builds and tests rockets)

 Context examples 

"Blue sharks can’t regulate their body temperature internally to stay warmer than the ambient seawater like white sharks can," said Braun.

(Blue sharks use ocean eddies as fast-tracks to food, National Science Foundation)

Camrin Braun, a University of Washington marine ecologist and lead author of the study, says the behavior of the blue sharks was similar to that of white sharks the team tracked in a study last year.

(Blue sharks use ocean eddies as fast-tracks to food, National Science Foundation)