noun
Oppenheimer
O-puhn-heye-muhr
noun
1
A person from the German town of Oppenheim.
"The old records listed several Oppenheimers among the town's merchants."
name
1
A German surname, most famously associated with physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, a key figure in developing the atomic bomb.
"Oppenheimer led the scientific team at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project."
How to Use Oppenheimer
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA German surname, best known today because of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Word Forms
Oppenheimers plural, Oppenheimers plural
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Etymology
Literally means "one from Oppenheim," a town in Germany, formed the way many German surnames were built from place names.