Grimm

American  

[grim] / grɪm /

noun

1. Jakob Ludwig Karl 1785–1863, and his brother Wilhelm Karl 1786–1859, German philologists and folklorists.

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Grimm British  

/ ɡrɪm /

noun

1. Jakob Ludwig Karl (ˈjaːkɔp ˈluːtvɪç karl), 1785–1863, and his brother, Wilhelm Karl (ˈvɪlhɛlm karl), 1786–1859, German philologists and folklorists, who collaborated on Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812–22) and began a German dictionary. Jakob is noted also for his philological work Deutsche Grammatik (1819–37), in which he formulated the law named after him

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Example Sentences

Baldwin and Mayall first worked together on the children's television show Grim Tales in 1989, in which Mayall retold stories by the Brothers Grimm.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

Anduril co-founder Matt Grimm said on the online talk show “TBPN” in January.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

Until then, Grimm expected he might work a couple more years, though he felt that he probably had enough saved to retire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

"Most of the experiments were conducted using the patch clamp method," explains Christian Grimm, an expert in techniques that measure electrical activity in lysosomal membranes.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

Their names were as strange to me as their contents: Pinocchio, Aesop’s Fables and the fairy tales of the brothers Grimm.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane