say it: LIP-muhn
lippmann is a noun meaning "United States journalist (1889-1974)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
United States journalist (1889-1974)
French physicist who developed the first color photographic process (1845-1921)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lippmann come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.