einstein
/ˈaɪnˌstaɪn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.74 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th-century theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity.
noun
An extremely clever or intelligent person.
Example Sentences
- "Men of Science More or Less Agog Over Results of Eclipse Observations. EINSTEIN THEORY TRIUMPHS Stars Not Where They Seemed or Were Calculated to be, but Nobody Need Worry. A BOOK FOR 12 WISE MEN No More in All the World Could Comprehend it, Said Einstein When His Daring Publishers Accepted it."
- "Einstein said he could never understand it all / Planets spinning through space"
- "Gaston: Picasso, Einstein, Schmendiman. Somehow it doesn't have a ring."
- "We're sitting in a coffee shop in Sunnyvale, California. It's late. I've had a few beers, and my dinner date has downed a few plum wines. I peer deep into his eyes, trying to figure out why so many people throughout the high tech universe think Henry Massalin could be the Einstein of our time."
- "If Einstein, my dear / Were a toll booth cashier / I imagine he too would be [bored]"
- "Can you believe he's just a kindergartener? It looks like they've got an Einstein in the family."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈaɪnˌstaɪn/
- British English: /ˈaɪnˌstaɪn/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People, Physics.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Albert Einstein
Bose-Einstein condensate
Bose-Einstein statistics
Einstein-Bose statistics
Einstein cross
Einstein field equation
Einsteinian relativity
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox