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Humboldt Hum·boldt

Spelling: [huhm-bohlt; for 1, 2 also German h Humboldt is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 202 anagrams from letters in Humboldt (bdhlmotu).

Definitions for Humboldt

noun

1. Friedrich Heinrich Alexander [free-drikh hahyn-rikh ah-lek-sahn-duh r] /ˈfri drɪx ˈhaɪn rɪx ˌɑ lɛkˈsɑn dər/ (Show IPA), Baron von [fuh n] /fən/ (Show IPA), 1769–1859, German naturalist, writer, and statesman.
2. his brother, (Karl) Wilhelm [kahrl vil-helm] /kɑrl ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1767–1835, German philologist and diplomat.
3. a town in NW Tennessee.
4. a river in NE Nevada, flowing W and SW to the Humboldt Sink. 290 miles (467 km) long.

Examples for Humboldt

His fame, or “glory,” to use the words of Humboldt, preceded him.

There is a good account of it in Humboldt's Examen critique, tom.

Humboldt is said to have declared that the statue of Charles IV.

He is second only to Humboldt in describing a tropical forest.

“Intellectuals are coming up in this country,” Humboldt says.

Schlink: In 1990, in January, I became a guest professor at Humboldt in Germany right after the wall had come down.

It is well that Humboldt's advice was not heeded in this regard.

For a list of historic "dark days," see Humboldt, Cosmos, 1-120.

Humboldt sketched one of them, and it's an uncanny-looking thing.

Humboldt says that they were cast up from subterranean sources.