English noun: Einstein | |||
1. | Einstein (person) physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955) | ||
Synonyms | Albert Einstein | ||
Instance hypernym | physicist | ||
2. | Einstein (person) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | ||
Samples | Mozart was a child genius. He's smart but he's no Einstein. | ||
Synonyms | brain, brainiac, genius, mastermind | ||
Broader (hypernym) | intellect, intellectual | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | prodigy | ||