berlin

name

1. (countable, uncountable)The capital and largest city of Germany.

   “Ironically enough, it was the anti-war stirrings of Dada that bore out its most immediate influence, first in Switzerland and then post-war Berlin.”

   “The furious reaction in Germany after 200,000 protective masks destined for Berlin mysteriously went missing in Thailand and were allegedly redirected to the US is a case in point. There is no solid proof Trump approved the heist. But it’s the sort of thing he would do – or so people believe.”

2. (countable, metonymically, uncountable)The German government.

   “The practical implication of this decision in the world of 1948 is clear: The United States would indeed support the veterans of the Vlasov Army, the eastern SS collaborators, and other groups that had permitted themselves to become pawns of Berlin during the war.”

3. (countable, uncountable)A state of Germany containing the capital city.
4. (countable, uncountable)A surname from German.

   “The family tree boasts an astonishing array of celebrated historical figures from the prophet Isaiah to Sir Isaiah Berlin, from Felix Mendelssohn to Karl Marx and Moses Montefiore. The list also includes Yehudi Menuhin, Helena Rubinstein, the Rothschilds and even Rosenstein himself.”

5. (countable, uncountable)A female given name from German.
6. (countable, uncountable)A civil parish of the municipality of Seedorf, Segeberg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
7. (countable, uncountable)The former name of Kitchener, a city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
8. (countable, uncountable)A village in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.
9. (countable, uncountable)A small town in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
10. (countable, uncountable)A place in the United States.
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37. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of Berlin Township.

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Short for Berlin worsted

   “Are you not aware that the single worsted that Berlin is made of, is very different from that that is made into stockings?”

   “Berlin and other kinds of Lamb's Wool and Worsted of the finest colours and in the brightest shades; […]”

   “Fine mixed "Berlins" shoddy”