Definitions

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  • proper noun A surname.

Etymologies

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From German Zimmermann, an occupational surname for a carpenter from the Middle High German zimbermann.

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Examples

  • Did you know that the Australian swimwear label Zimmermann, whose sales we host on Gilt, just reopened their glitzy Bondi store?

    Alexis Maybank: Tweet Stuff 2009

  • The glam Australian label Zimmermann has a range of daring, navel-flaunting designs (from $214; zimmermannwear. com).

    The Good Life 2007

  • Riggleman also broached the idea of Zimmermann making his debut before September arrives.

    For now, Jason Marquis remains in the Nationals rotation 2010

  • But Jeremie Zimmermann from a French citizen advocacy group La Quadrature du Net Squaring the Net thinks that it is unlikely that anyone will ever be charged.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • The German word for carpenter is "Zimmermann" (room-maker, literally room-man), and hence is the source for the surname of many people in German and English-speaking countries.

    MyLinkVault Newest Links 2008

  • The last name of New York art dealer Arne Zimmermann was misspelled as Zimmerman in some editions of a Personal Journal article Thursday on outdoor furniture being used inside.

    Corrections & Amplifications 2011

  • See also his “‘Clear Heads, Solid Stomachs, and Hard Muscles’: Max Nordau and the Aesthetics of Jewish Regeneration,” Modernism/modernity 10, no. 2 2003: 269–96, and Moshe Zimmermann, “Muscle Jews versus Nervous Jews,” in Emancipation through Muscles, 13–26.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • (From fearnet. com) The Familiar is a short film written and directed by movie ‘grunt,’ Kody Zimmermann.

    IN THE WORLD OF MOVIE NEWS: OCTOBER 17TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009

  • Her fine recordings of the Schumann violin sonatas with Dénes Várjon were followed by an outstanding collection that took in Schoenberg, Zimmermann, Feldman and Xenakis.

    Schubert: Fantasy in C; Sonata in A, etc – review 2012

  • Jason Marquis will now pitch the fifth spring training game, and Jordan Zimmermann will start the fourth.

    Is Roger Bernadina a lock to make the Nationals? 2011

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