noun
the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863)
• Syn: ↑Grimm, ↑Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author, ↑linguist, ↑linguistic scientist
Useful english dictionary. 2012.