Wasserstein
Proper noun
Meaning
Wasserstein (plural Wassersteins)
A surname from German.
Examples
The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.
An unremarkable student at Mount Holyoke and the Yale School of Drama (her classmates there included Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver), Wendy Wasserstein became a force on the New York theater scene before succumbing to lymphoma at the age of 55 in 2006.
Centerview Partners, for example, was established in 2006 by bankers including Blair Effron, formerly group vice chairman of UBS, and Robert Pruzan, formerly global head of investment banking at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.
The -bestselling author of eight books, she most recently published Wendy and the Lost Boys, a compelling biography of playwright Wendy Wasserstein.