Baum

[bawm, bahm, boum]

noun

1. L(yman) Frank 1856–1919, U.S. journalist, playwright, and author of children's books.

2. Vicki, 1888–1960, U.S. novelist, born in Austria.

Baum

/ bɔːm, bɑːm /

noun

1. L ( yman ) Frank 1856–1919, US novelist, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and its sequels

Example Sentences

“Wicked: For Good” features silver heels — a nod to L. Frank Baum’s original novel — but alludes to the red shoes when Nessarose begs to revisit that high-flying night at the Ozdust Ballroom.

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Leonard Baum, a mathematician who helped develop hidden Markov models — algorithms that find patterns in seemingly random sequences — started collecting everything.

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Baum decided to keep the card for now.

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Andy Baum, the county’s outside attorney leading the defense effort, told a judge in a June hearing that he viewed it as an “inventory settlement.”

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“Since I was 11, I’ve gone almost every year with my dad to Zion National Park in Utah,” wrote Joshua G. Baum of West Hollywood.

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