Weimar
pronunciation
How to pronounce Weimar in British English:
UK [ˈvaimɑ:]
How to pronounce Weimar in American English:
US [ˈwaɪˌmɑr, ˈvaɪ-]
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- Noun:
- a German city near Leipzig; scene of the adoption in 1919 of the constitution of the Weimar Republic that lasted until 1933
Word Origin
- Weimar (adj.)
- in reference to the pre-1933 democratic government of Germany, 1932, from name of city in Thuringia where German constitution was drawn up in 1919. The place name is a compound of Old High German wih "holy" + mari "lake" (see mere (n.)).
Example
- 1. This will avoid the looming spectre of weimar economics .
- 2. That hardly sounds like the weimar republic .
- 3. But with their historic folk memory of the weimar hyperinflation , the germans will simply not have that .
- 4. What did they make of the country as it moved from the messiness of weimar to the madness of hitlerism ?
- 5. Nearly a century has passed but the janus face of the weimar republic appals and attracts as much as ever .