NIBELUNG (nibelungen)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: nibelungen   

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

1. (German mythology) a companion or follower of Siegfried

2. (German mythology) any of the group of dwarfs who possessed a treasure hoard that was stolen by Siegfried

  Familiarity information: NIBELUNG used as a noun is rare.

• NIBELUNG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(German mythology) a companion or follower of Siegfried

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

Domain category:

mythology (myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person)

Teuton (a member of the ancient Germanic people who migrated from Jutland to southern Gaul and were annihilated by the Romans)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(German mythology) any of the group of dwarfs who possessed a treasure hoard that was stolen by Siegfried

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Nibelung" is a kind of...):

dwarf; gnome (a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure)

Domain category:

mythology (myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person)

Teuton (a member of the ancient Germanic people who migrated from Jutland to southern Gaul and were annihilated by the Romans)