Wagner

[wag-ner, vahg-ner, vahg-nuhr]

noun

1. Honus John Peter, 1874–1955, U.S. baseball player.

2. Otto 1841–1918, Austrian architect.

3. Richard 1813–83, German composer.

4. Robert F(erdinand), 1877–1953, U.S. politician.

5. his son Robert F(erdinand), Jr., 1910–91, U.S. politician: mayor of New York City 1954–65.

Wagner

/ ˈvɑːɡnə /

noun

1. Otto. 1841–1918, Austrian architect, whose emphasis on function and structure in such buildings as the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna (1904–06), influenced the development of modern architecture

2. ( Wilhelm ) Richard (ˈrɪçart). 1813–83, German romantic composer noted chiefly for his invention of the music drama. His cycle of four such dramas The Ring of the Nibelung was produced at his own theatre in Bayreuth in 1876. His other operas include Tannhäuser (1845; revised 1861), Tristan and Isolde (1865), and Parsifal (1882)

Example Sentences

Moscow both overestimated the Wagner Group’s strength as a power in Africa, now in shambles, and underestimated its potential to threaten the Russian government, as it did with an aborted coup.

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He expelled French troops, and brought in mercenaries from Russia's Wagner group, which is under Moscow's defence ministry.

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The orchestral writing, nicely handled by conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, can be colorful, though the ominous Wagner tubas become predictable after a while and the electronica for which Mr. Bates is best known is barely discernible.

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“Rwanda is likely funding these events and sponsorships with money from minerals stolen from Congo,” Congolese Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner said.

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A thousand Wagner mercenaries first arrived in Mali in late 2021, with the nation’s government paying $10 million a month for help fighting the insurgents.

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