Copenhagen

[ koh-puhn-hey-guhn, -hah-, koh-puhn-hey-, -hah- ]

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noun

Copenhagen

/ -ˈhɑː-; ˈkəʊpənˌheɪ-; ˌkəʊpənˈheɪɡən; -ˌhɑː- /

the capital of Denmark, a port on Zealand and the Amager Islands on a site inhabited for some 6000 years: exports chiefly agricultural products; iron and steel works; university (1479). Pop: 501 664 (2004 est) Danish nameKøbenhavn

Copenhagen

Capital of Denmark and largest city in the country, located in eastern Denmark; the country's chief commercial, industrial, and cultural center.

Called the “ Paris of the north” because of its similar charm.

In 1974, 75 members of the group descended on a Copenhagen department store.

For these infractions of the Holiday spirit, they were arrested and in some cases beaten in the street by Copenhagen police.

It had opened in Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Prague, London.

And in Copenhagen, BIG Architects are building a new incinerator that also doubles as a wintertime ski slope.

Last Sunday Marius, a 2-year-old giraffe, was slaughtered at the Copenhagen Zoo.

He was then sent to Copenhagen to live in a family which received him at the request of Consul Garman.

As well learn a trade in Copenhagen, if it was to come to that.

She had telegraphed for the whole set-out to Worse's agent in Copenhagen, with whom the money had for some time been lying ready.

He spent the next twelve years in Copenhagen, where he was intimate with Klopstock.

But at the very moment of the attack on Copenhagen, a stroke as effective wrecked his projects in the East.

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