SCHILLER

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• SCHILLER (noun)
  The noun SCHILLER has 1 sense:

1. German romantic writer (1759-1805)

  Familiarity information: SCHILLER used as a noun is very rare.

• SCHILLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

German romantic writer (1759-1805)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller; Schiller

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

 Context examples 

I saw Goethe's house, Schiller's statue, and Dannecker's famous 'Ariadne.'

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His sisters were gone to Morton in my stead: I sat reading Schiller; he, deciphering his crabbed Oriental scrolls.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Try a little now. Here is Schiller's Mary Stuart and a tutor who loves to teach." And Mr. Brooke laid his book on her lap with an inviting smile.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One evening, while, with her usual child-like activity, and thoughtless yet not offensive inquisitiveness, she was rummaging the cupboard and the table-drawer of my little kitchen, she discovered first two French books, a volume of Schiller, a German grammar and dictionary, and then my drawing-materials and some sketches, including a pencil-head of a pretty little cherub-like girl, one of my scholars, and sundry views from nature, taken in the Vale of Morton and on the surrounding moors.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She said nothing at first, for she liked to hear him laugh out his big, hearty laugh when anything funny happened, so she left him to discover it for himself, and presently forgot all about it, for to hear a German read Schiller is rather an absorbing occupation.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)