kern

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun United States composer of musical comedies (1885-1945)
  2. noun the part of a metal typeface that projects beyond its body
  3. verb furnish with a kern

Etymology

From Middle English curn, cooren, variant forms of Middle English corn, see English corn and also Dutch kern, Old High German kerno, cherno, Middle High German kerne, kern, German Kern (“core, kernel”), Old Norse kjarni, Icelandic kjarni, Danish kjerne, Swedish kärna (“core, kernel”); see also kernel.

In classic literature

Synonyms

Jerome Kern, Jerome David Kern

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