WAGNER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wagner mean? 

• WAGNER (noun)
  The noun WAGNER has 3 senses:

1. Austrian architect and pioneer of modern architecture (1841-1918)

2. German composer of operas and inventor of the musical drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (1813-1883)

3. the music of Wagner

  Familiarity information: WAGNER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAGNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Austrian architect and pioneer of modern architecture (1841-1918)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Otto Wagner; Wagner

Instance hypernyms:

architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))

Sense 2

Meaning:

German composer of operas and inventor of the musical drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (1813-1883)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Richard Wagner; Wagner; Wilhelm Richard Wagner

Instance hypernyms:

composer (someone who composes music as a profession)

Derivation:

Wagnerian (of or relating to Richard Wagner or his music)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The music of Wagner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

they say that Hitler listened only to Wagner

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

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

 Context examples 

By the way, it is not eight o’clock, and a Wagner night at Covent Garden!

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet he betrayed a democratic fondness for Wagner, and the "Tannhauser" overture, when she had given him the clew to it, claimed him as nothing else she played.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)