WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
von
(von; Ger. fôn, unstressed fən),USA pronunciation prep.
- from;
of (used in German and Austrian personal names, originally to indicate place of origin and later to indicate nobility):Paul von Hindenburg.
'von' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Albertus Magnus
- Arnim
- Auer
- Avon Lake
- Axelrod
- Baer
- Baeyer
- Bard of Avon
- Behring
- Bellingshausen
- Berlichingen
- Bernhardi
- Bethmann Hollweg
- Bethmann-Hollweg
- Bismarck
- Bismarckian
- Braun
- Brentano
- Békésy
- Bülow
- Clausewitz
- Cornelius
- Darvon Compound
- Dietrich
- Dietrich von Bern
- Dittersdorf
- Dohnányi
- Droste-Hülshoff
- Eichendorff
- Euler
- Euler-Chelpin
- Eötvös
- Falkenhayn
- Fassbinder
- Fischer von Erlach
- Flotow
- Fraunhofer
- Fraunhofer lines
- Frisch
- Gesner
- Gluck
- Goethe
- Goltz
- Gottfried von Strassburg
- Grofé
- Guericke
- Götz von Berlichingen
- Haidinger fringes
- Haller
- Hardenberg