Sigmund

[sig-muhnd, seeg-moond, zeek-moont]

noun

1. (in theVolsunga Saga ) the son of Volsung and Liod; the father, through his sister, Signy, of Sinfjotli; the husband first of Borghild, then of Hjordis; and the father of Sigurd.

2. (in theNibelungenlied ) the king of the Netherlands and father of Siegfried.

3. a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “victory” and “protection.”

Sigmund

/ ˈziːkmʊnt, ˈsɪɡmənd, ˈsiːɡmʊnd /

noun

1. Norse myth the father of the hero Sigurd

2. Also called: Siegmund. German myth king of the Netherlands, father of Siegfried

Example Sentences

Weleda said a separate report in 2023 found no evidence Dr Sigmund Rascher tested the cream on prisoners kept in freezing conditions for hours.

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As Anne Benvenuti, a professor emerita of Psychology and Philosophy at Cerro Coso Community College in California, put it in a 2016 paper in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, "While convergent research on animal cognition, emotion, and behavior has increasingly pointed in the direction of animal “personhood,” interdisciplinary research in human cognition has simultaneously confirmed Sigmund Freud's hypothesis that not only are human beings not always self-aware and rational, but also the human unconscious mind motivates much of human behavior; and that human consciousness is fragmented at best."

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Although influential whites such as Sigmund Freud and the former surgeon general of the U.S.

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Played by Basil Rathbone, he fought Nazis in Wold War II; he collaborated with Sigmund Freud in Nicholas Meyer’s “The Seven-Per-Cent Solution”; and in the person of Benedict Cumberbatch, hurried through the glass-tower forest of 21st-century London.

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Sigmund Freud could not get to the heart of this lot.

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