lin

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

  1. noun United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959)

Etymology

From Middle English linnen, from Old English linnan (“to cease from, desist, lose, yield up”), from Proto-West Germanic *linnan, from Proto-Germanic *linnaną (“to turn, move aside, avoid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to elude, avoid, shrink from”). Cognate with Danish linne (“to stop, rest”), dialectal Swedish linna (“to pause, rest”), Icelandic linna (“to stop, rest”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

Maya Lin

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