Berlin
pronunciation
How to pronounce Berlin in British English:
UK [bə:ˈlin]
How to pronounce Berlin in American English:
US [bɚˈlin]
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- Noun:
- a limousine with a glass partition between the front and back seats
Word Origin
- Berlin
- city in Brandenburg, capital of Germany, traditionally by folk-etymology from German Bär "bear," but likely from a Slavic source, compare Old Polabian berl-, birl- "swamp," in reference to the old city's location on low, marshy ground along the River Spree. A flashpoint city in the Cold War, the Berlin airlift ran from June 28, 1948 to May 12, 1949. The Berlin Wall began to be built Aug. 15, 1961, and was effective until Nov. 9, 1989.
- berlin (n.)
- old type of four-wheeled covered carriage, 1690s, so called because it was introduced in Brandenburg, c. 1670; see Berlin. Hence berline (from the French form) "automobile with a glass partition behind the driver's seat." In reference to a type of wool and the popular patterns made for it, from 1841.
Example
- 1. Berlin is on the verge of blossoming into a european entrepreneurial hub .
- 2. Right now , malta to me still feels more like jerusalem or tunis than berlin .
- 3. Irving berlin and george m. cohan opened on broadway .
- 4. Berlin may provide the first exception .
- 5. They are mostly in berlin .