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Pontoppidan

[ pon-top-i-dahn ]

noun

  1. Hen·rik [hen, -, r, eek], 1857–1943, Danish novelist: Nobel Prize 1917.


Pontoppidan

/ pontˈtopidan /

noun

  1. PontoppidanHenrik18571943MDanishWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writer Henrik. 1857–1943, Danish novelist and short-story writer, author of the novel sequences The Promised Land (1891–95), Lykke-Per (1898–1904), and The Empire of Death (1912–16). Nobel prize for literature 1917
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

JWST now shows the nebula’s “infrared fireworks,” Pontoppidan says.

“I couldn’t even share it with my wife,” says Pontoppidan, leader of the team that produced the first color science images.

Some of the most famous Hubble Space Telescope images feature this nebula in visible light, but JWST shows it in “infrared fireworks,” Pontoppidan says.

The team doesn’t want to promise something specific and then be wrong, Pontoppidan says.

It will take at least another five months after arriving at L2 to finish calibrating all of those science instruments, Pontoppidan says.

It is easy to recognise in Pontoppidan's description of the Kraken, the form and habits of one of the "Cuttle-fishes," so-called.

Of course the worthy bishop of Bergen, Pontoppidan, has something to tell us about mermaids in his part of the world.

He gave me a lesson out of Pontoppidan to learn, and now I'm to be heard.

Perhaps her mother had tried to force her to marry Erik Pontoppidan.

But Pontoppidan evidently uses it as descriptive of all the cephalopods.

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