Herman

American  

[hur-muhn] / ˈhɜr mən /

noun

1. Woodrow Woody, 1913–1987, U.S. jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader.

2. a male given name: from Old English words meaning “army” and “ man.”

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Example Sentences

Like Herman Melville’s Captain Ahab in pursuit of his whale, Mr. Tesson is drawn to “The White,” his mythic name for mountain snowscapes.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The vast majority of our industries are millions of light years away from AI,” Herman Gref, the chief executive of state-owned lender Sberbank, which is leading Russia’s AI efforts, said earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal

He also was a vice president at the modern furnishings company now known as MillerKnoll that was co-founded by Howard Miller’s father, Herman.

From Salon

When nuclear strategist Herman Kahn published “Thinking About the Unthinkable” in 1962, it compelled Americans to confront the possibility of nuclear war and civilizational collapse.

From The Wall Street Journal

Variety's Alison Herman wrote: "By declining to enrich its characters as they age, Stranger Things traps itself in arrested development. When you get bigger without going deeper, you end up stretched thin."

From BBC