Einstein

Borrowed from German Einstein.

• The common noun is an eponym of Albert Einstein.

• enPR: (more common) īn′stīn′, (less common) īn′shtīn′

  The less common variant is closer to the German source.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, New Zealand, Scotland) IPA^(key): (more common) /ˈaɪnˌstaɪn/, (less common) /ˈaɪnˌʃtaɪn/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): (more common) /ˈɑenˌstɑen/, (less common) /ˈɑenˌʃtɑen/
• (India) IPA^(key): (more common) /ˈajnˌsʈajn/, (less common) /ˈajnˌʃʈajn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn
• Hyphenation: Ein‧stein

Einstein (plural Einsteins)

2. Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th-century theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity.
   • 1919 November 10, “LIGHTS ALL ASKEW IN THE HEAVENS”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 1977, James Taylor, “Secret O' Life”, in JT, Columbia Records:

     Einstein said he could never understand it all / Planets spinning through space

   • 1993, Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile:

     Gaston: Picasso, Einstein, Schmendiman. Somehow it doesn't have a ring.

   • 1996 December, Gary Andrew Poole, “Qua”, in Wired‎^[2], →ISSN:

     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.

   • 2000 January 22, Listener Limerick Challenge: Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, spoken by Carl Kasell, via National Public Radio:

     If Einstein, my dear / Were a toll booth cashier / I imagine he too would be [bored]

4. A surname from German.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Einstein is the 34390^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 659 individuals. Einstein is most common among White (94.54%) individuals.

Einstein (plural Einsteins)

1. (sometimes sarcastic) An extremely clever or intelligent person.

   Synonyms: Albert Einstein; see also Thesaurus:know-it-all

   Can you believe he's just a kindergartener? It looks like they've got an Einstein in the family.

   Good job, Einstein, thinking you could grab the wires with your pliers.

• Nineties, nineties

The surname is habitational, from any of various places named with a Middle High German derivative of einsteinen ("to enclose or surround with stone"), cp. ein-, Stein and -en, or from ein +‎ Stein.^[1] The "an extremely intelligent person" sense is an eponym of Albert Einstein.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ̯nˌʃtaɪ̯n/
• Rhymes: -aɪ̯n
• Hyphenation: Ein‧stein

Einstein m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Einsteins or (with an article) Einstein, feminine genitive Einstein, plural Einsteins)

1. a surname, notably of Albert Einstein

Einstein m

1. an Einstein (an extremely intelligent person)

• Columbo (a person stating the obvious)

• “Einstein” in Duden online

Unadapted borrowing from German Einstein.

• IPA^(key): /ˈajn.ʂtajn/
• Rhymes: -ajnʂtajn
• Syllabification: Ein‧stein
• Homophones: ajnsztajn, einstein

Einstein m pers

1. (physics) Albert Einstein

• Einstein in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from German Einstein.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈaj̃s.taj̃/
• Rhymes: (Brazil) -aj̃
• Hyphenation: Ein‧stein

Einstein m or f by sense

1. Einstein (Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist)
2. a surname from German

Einstein m (invariable)

1. an Einstein (an extremely intelligent or wise person)