Associations to the word «Guggenheim»

Wiktionary

GUGGENHEIM, proper noun. A surname.
GUGGENHEIM, proper noun. A museum dedicated to a person of that name.

Dictionary definition

GUGGENHEIM, noun. United States philanthropist; son of Meyer Guggenheim who created several foundations to support the arts (1861-1949).
GUGGENHEIM, noun. United States industrialist (born in Switzerland) who with his sons established vast mining and metal processing companies (1828-1905).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats