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Definition of Hamburg

1. Noun. A port city in northern Germany on the Elbe River that was founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century and is today the largest port in Germany; in 1241 it formed an alliance with Lubeck that became the basis for the Hanseatic League.

Definition of Hamburg

1. n. A commercial city of Germany, near the mouth of the Elbe.

Definition of Hamburg

1. Proper noun. One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation. ¹

2. Proper noun. A city in Germany. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hamburg

1. a patty of ground beef [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hamburg

Literary usage of Hamburg

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1904)
"THE MERCHANT ADVENTURERS AT Hamburg THE imperial city of Hamburg was for nearly two hundred years the principal seaport on the continent to which the ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Hamburg-Bremen (Berlin. 1877); Huí : ni, Getch. der ... P. ALBERT. life Of Catholic Hamburg is sustained by numerous associations, among them the ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In 1536 Hamburg joined the league of Schmalkalden, for which error it had to pay a heavy.fine in 1547 when the league had been defeated. ..."

4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1857)
"The postage for which the United States and Hamburg Post- offices shall reciprocally account ... The Hamburg office shall pay to the United States office, ..."

5. Northern Germany, as Far as the Bavarian and Austrian Frontiers: Handbook by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1893)
"208 M. Plön ("Prinz; Stadt Hamburg) is very picturesquely situated between the Grosse and Kleine Planer See. The Prussian military school was once a royal ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"In 1884 he undertook a journey to Palestine and afterward wrote Auf biblischen Pfaden (Hamburg, 1885). (CARL BERTHEAU.) BIBLIOGRAPHY: Lives have been ..."

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