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gertrude

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for gertrude.

Editorial note

Finally, is Ginsberg really in the white middlebrow canon - and is Gertrude Stein as important as assumed.

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Quick take

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gertrude.

noun

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

Example sentences

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Finally, is Ginsberg really in the white middlebrow canon - and is Gertrude Stein as important as assumed.

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Founded in December of 2012 and based in New York City, Gertrude is the world's network for art events.

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We are redefining the art Salon for the 21st Century, like Gertrude Stein did for her time.

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I suspect dfc refers in part to famous expats like Gertrude Stein, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent?

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Every time I go to BuzzFeed (every few months or so) I feel like Gertrude Stein visiting Oakland.

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The couple married in 1927, after waiting three years until Gertrude turned 18.

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The second link (skeptics dictionary) quotes: The expression dates back to 1942 and Gertrude Schmeidler, a professor of psychology at City University of New York.

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That link includes a picture of John and Gertrude Janeway.

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> From a remark by Gertrude Stein in Everybody's Autobiography (1937), concerning the fact that her childhood home in Oakland, California, no longer existed.

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Fun fact: my wife and I stayed in the Gertrude Stein room the American Club in Kohler, WI, and is the only reason I know who she is and clicked on this post.

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Instead of using technology to commodify art via an online marketplace, I am more interested in using technology to match collectors and artists so they can meet at intimate, real life one-hour events (we call them Salons, like one by Gertrude Stein).

Quote examples

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I don’t want to go to the parties.” I started Gertrude (www.gertrude.co) a few months ago in NYC exactly on this thought.

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> The phrase echoes Gertrude Stein’s famous line about Oakland: “There’s no there there”, which meant a place had no substance or significance.

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I haven’t read much of Gertrude Stein, but I often think of her brilliantly eccentric essay on punctuation[0], and especially her musings on the nature of the semicolon, whose crux is: “They are more powerful more imposing more pretentious than a comma but they are a comma all the same.

Proper noun examples

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Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway are two of the most famous of the American expat community in inter-war Europe.

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I've just been travelling through Singapore and was astonished to come across young women named Agnes and Gertrude.

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Gertrude was engaged to him, later married him, and his mother raised the child.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use gertrude in a sentence?

Finally, is Ginsberg really in the white middlebrow canon - and is Gertrude Stein as important as assumed.

What does gertrude mean?

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

What part of speech is gertrude?

gertrude is commonly used as noun.