Wagner (surname)
WordNet
noun
(1) The music of Wagner
"They say that Hitler listened only to Wagner"
(2) German composer of operas and inventor of the music drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (1813-1883)
(3) Austrian architect and pioneer of modern architecture (1841-1918)
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Etymology
From Wagner, meaning ‘wheelwright’. See also the English surname Wheelwright.
Proper noun
- of German origin. Widely known as the surname of the German composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883).
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