Munich

[ myoo-nik ]

noun

1. German München. a city in and the capital of Bavaria, in SW Germany.
2. any dishonorable appeasement.

Munich

/ ˈmjuːnɪk /

noun

1. a city in S 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: 1 247 873 (2003 est) German nameMünchen

Munich

1. Capital of Bavaria , located in southern Germany near the Bavarian Alps ; a commercial, industrial, transportation, communications, and cultural center.

Notes

The Munich Pact , drawn up in 1938, forced Czechoslovakia to give up territory to the Nazis.

During World War II , the Allies bombed much of the city. After the war, it was the largest city in the American occupation zone.

Munich was the scene of the Nazi party's rise to power; National Socialism ( Nazism ) was founded there in 1918, and Adolf Hitler led an attempted revolution in Munich in 1923, the Beer Hall Putsch.

Example Sentences

The risk to his life was great enough that he had to flee Munich when Hitler attempted to seize power in November 1923.

From The Daily Beast

Hitchcock went to Munich as part of an Anglo-German production team.

From The Daily Beast

Outposts budded in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Geneva, and various other burgs, including, yes, Amsterdam.

From The Daily Beast

To target the resurgent Nazi movement, X-2 recruited some 13 agents in Munich and had another dozen under consideration.

From The Daily Beast

On the television screen in her small Paris flat, Sylvia carefully followed the events in Munich.

From The Daily Beast

A pupil of her father until his death, when she became a student under Gabriel Max, in Munich, for a year.

From Project Gutenberg

I saw you go white once before, when I tried to make you talk about Munich; and the romantic Flora was full of surmises.

From Project Gutenberg

Jaffery, to give himself an appetite for dinner, ordered half a litre of Munich beer.

From Project Gutenberg

A glance at the map will show that, as Napoleon said, he could then in an emergency reach Munich like lightning.

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They had expected a repetition of Moreau's advance by Munich; instead, they were called on to defend their capital a second time.

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