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Munich

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Mu·nich  (mynk)
A city of southeast Germany near the Bavarian Alps southeast of Augsburg. Founded in 1158, it has long been the center of Bavaria. Adolf Hitler organized the Nazi Party here after World War I and signed the Munich Pact, widely regarded as a symbol of appeasement, with Great Britain, France, and Italy in 1938. The city was largely rebuilt after extensive Allied bombing in World War II. Population: 1,290,000.
Munich [ˈmjuːnɪk]
n
(Placename) a city in SW Germany, capital of the state of Bavaria, on the Isar River: became capital of Bavaria in 1508; headquarters of the Nazi movement in the 1920s; a major financial, commercial, and manufacturing centre. Pop.: 1 193 600 (1999 est.) German name München
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Noun1.MunichMunich - the capital and largest city of Bavaria in southwestern Germany
Muenchen
Bavaria - a state in southern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory
Translations
Munich
n → München nt
adj attr → Münchner
Munich [ˈmjuːnɪk] n → Monaco f (di Baviera)
Munich [ˈmjuːnɪk] n → Monaco f (di Baviera)


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A German lady in Munich told me that a person could not like Wagner's music at first, but must go through the deliberate process of learning to like it--then he would have his sure reward; for when he had learned to like it he would hunger for it and never be able to get enough of it.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
I had really wanted to go to Germany, that I might carry forward my studies in German literature, and I first applied for the consulate at Munich.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
They also undertook to examine the true nature of that system of parallel ramparts discovered on the moon's surface by Gruithuysen, a learned professor of Munich, who considered them to be "a system of fortifications thrown up by the Selenitic engineers.
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