Weill

American  

[wahyl, vahyl] / waɪl, vaɪl /

noun

1. Kurt 1900–50, German composer, in the U.S. after 1935.

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Weill British  

/ vaɪl /

noun

1. Kurt (kʊrt). 1900–50, German composer, in the US from 1935. He wrote the music for Brecht's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1927) and The Threepenny Opera (1928)

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Example Sentences

Anna Pavlick, a doctor at New York’s Weill Cornell Medicine who has researched melanoma for 25 years, treated patients in the trial.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Earlier in her career at Weill Cornell Medicine, Balbach helped show that blocking a critical sperm enzyme caused temporary infertility in mice.

From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2026

Citi’s former CEO Sandy Weill just gave the largest donation in veterinary medicine to the school that cared for his dog.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026

Carter and Weill shared an office for about seven years, Weill recalled, until Carter had enough of investment banking, and he clashed with his partners over the firm’s strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

In Depression-era Europe, The Threepenny Opera clearly struck a chord: by the time Weill left Germany for the USA in 1933 it had been translated into eighteen languages and performed several thousand times.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall