ferdinand : Idioms & Phrases

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august ferdinand mobius

  • noun German mathematician responsible for the Mobius strip (1790-1868)
    Mobius; August F. Mobius.
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baron hermann ludwig ferdinand von helmholtz

  • noun German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894)
    Hermann von Helmholtz; Helmholtz; Baron Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz.
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count ferdinand von zeppelin

  • noun German inventor who designed and built the first rigid motorized dirigible (1838-1917)
    Zeppelin.
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ferdinand and isabella

  • noun joint monarchs of Spain; Ferdinand V and Isabella I
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ferdinand de lesseps

  • noun French diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal (1805-1894)
    Lesseps; Ferdinand de Lesseps.
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ferdinand de saussure

  • noun Swiss linguist and expert in historical linguistics whose lectures laid the foundations for synchronic linguistics (1857-1913)
    Saussure; de Saussure.
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ferdinand i

  • noun Holy Roman Emperor and king of Hungary and Bohemia (1503-1564)
  • noun king of Castile and Leon who achieved control of the Moorish kings of Saragossa and Seville and Toledo (1016-1065)
    Ferdinand I.
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ferdinand ii

  • noun Holy Roman Emperor and king of Bohemia and Hungary who waged war against Protestant forces (1578-1637)
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ferdinand iii

  • noun Holy Roman Emperor and king of Hungary and Bohemia who signed the Peace of Westphalia ending the Thirty Years' War (1608-1657)
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ferdinand joseph la menthe morton

  • noun United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941)
    Morton; Jelly Roll Morton.
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ferdinand julius cohn

  • noun German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants
    Cohn.
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ferdinand magellan

  • noun Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521)
    Fernao Magalhaes; Magellan.
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ferdinand of aragon

  • noun the king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella; his marriage to Isabella I in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain and their capture of Granada from the Moors in 1492 united Spain as one country; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and supported the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1452-1516)
    Ferdinand the Catholic; Ferdinand; Ferdinand V; Ferdinand of Aragon.
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ferdinand the catholic

  • noun the king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella; his marriage to Isabella I in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain and their capture of Granada from the Moors in 1492 united Spain as one country; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and supported the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1452-1516)
    Ferdinand the Catholic; Ferdinand; Ferdinand V; Ferdinand of Aragon.
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ferdinand the great

  • noun king of Castile and Leon who achieved control of the Moorish kings of Saragossa and Seville and Toledo (1016-1065)
    Ferdinand I.
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ferdinand v

  • noun the king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella; his marriage to Isabella I in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain and their capture of Granada from the Moors in 1492 united Spain as one country; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and supported the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1452-1516)
    Ferdinand the Catholic; Ferdinand; Ferdinand V; Ferdinand of Aragon.
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ferdinand victor eugene delacroix

  • noun French romantic painter (1798-1863)
    Eugene Delacroix; Delacroix.
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francis ferdinand

  • noun archduke of Austria and heir apparent to Francis Joseph I; his assassination at Sarajevo triggered the outbreak of World War I (1863-1914)
    Francis Ferdinand.
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franz ferdinand

  • noun archduke of Austria and heir apparent to Francis Joseph I; his assassination at Sarajevo triggered the outbreak of World War I (1863-1914)
    Francis Ferdinand.
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hermann ludwig ferdinand von helmholtz

  • noun German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894)
    Hermann von Helmholtz; Helmholtz; Baron Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz.
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king ferdinand

  • noun the king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella; his marriage to Isabella I in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain and their capture of Granada from the Moors in 1492 united Spain as one country; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and supported the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1452-1516)
    Ferdinand the Catholic; Ferdinand; Ferdinand V; Ferdinand of Aragon.
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max ferdinand perutz

  • noun English biochemist (born in Austria); studied the molecular structure of blood (1914-2002)
    Perutz; Max Perutz.
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vicomte ferdinand marie de lesseps

  • noun French diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal (1805-1894)
    Lesseps; Ferdinand de Lesseps.
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