Mann

American  

[mahn, man, man] / mɑn, mæn, mæn /

noun

1. Heinrich 1871–1950, German novelist and dramatist, in the U.S. after 1940 (brother of Thomas Mann).

2. Horace, 1796–1859, U.S. educational reformer: instrumental in establishing the first normal school in the U.S. 1839.

3. Thomas 1875–1955, German novelist and critic, in the U.S. after 1937: Nobel Prize 1929.

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Mann British  

/ man /

noun

1. Heinrich (ˈhainrɪç). 1871–1950, German novelist: works include Professor Unrat (1905), which was filmed as The Blue Angel (1928), and Man of Straw (1918)

2. his brother, Thomas (ˈtoːmas). 1875–1955, German novelist, in the US after 1937. His works deal mainly with the problem of the artist in bourgeois society and include the short story Death in Venice (1913) and the novels Buddenbrooks (1900), The Magic Mountain (1924), and Doctor Faustus (1947): Nobel prize for literature 1929

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Pointedly reminiscent at times of movies by such masters as Alfred Hitchcock and Michael Mann, the film is a classically crafted, period-evocative drama of often claustrophobic emotional tension.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The rise in bond yields over recent months is unlikely to cool the U.K. economy enough to tame inflation, Bank of England rate setter Catherine L. Mann said Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

"The flip side of that is that we can prevent this from getting worse," University of Pennsylvania climatologist Michael Mann told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

Two days later, a man named Craig Mann was found dead in the trailer he was sharing with his partner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

I also looked up how old Thomas Mann had been when he wrote the book and saw that he had been past twenty, which made him old enough for me to disregard, at least partially.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

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