Mandelstam

American  

[man-dl-stahm, muhn-dyil-shtahm] / ˈmæn dlˌstɑm, mən dyɪlˈʃtɑm /

noun

1. Osip Emilyevich, 1892–1938?, Russian acmeist poet and essayist.

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Mandelstam British  

/ ˈmændəlˌʃtɑːm /

noun

1. Nadezhda ( Yakovlevna ) (næˈdɛʃdə), born Nadezhda Khazina. 1899–1980, Soviet writer, wife of Osip Mandelstam: noted for her memoirs Hope against Hope (1971) and Hope Abandoned (1973) describing life in Stalin's Russia

2. Osip ( Emilyevich ) (ˈɒsiːp). 1891–?1938, Soviet poet and writer, born in Warsaw; he was persecuted by Stalin and died in a labour camp. His works include Tristia (1922), Poems (1928), and the autobiographical Journey to Armenia (1933)

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Example Sentences

On the dissident side are the classics: Pasternak, Brodsky, Mandelstam, Solzhenitsyn.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023

“We believe there is now a process for moving forward together,” Mandelstam said.

From Washington Times • Feb. 15, 2020

But it’s not a portrait of Mandelstam, it’s a movie about Mandelstam’s ideas—or, rather, it’s about Josh’s big sociopolitical and aesthetically sophisticated, oblique, and abstract ideas, insofar as they overlap with Mandelstam’s.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 28, 2015

Peter Mandelstam, a wind developer and longtime chairman of the American Wind Energy Association’s offshore group, said, “We and other developers want this technology developed on both coasts.”

From New York Times • May 31, 2013

Think Mandelstam on his hell-train, shuddering with fever, dying of a line in     a poem.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2012