Bismarck

American  

[biz-mahrk, bis-mahrk] / ˈbɪz mɑrk, ˈbɪs mɑrk /

noun

1. Otto von 1815–98, German statesman: first chancellor of modern German Empire 1871–90.

2. a city in and the capital of North Dakota, in the central part.

3. (often lowercase)

   1. Chiefly Northern U.S. a jelly doughnut.

   2. Chiefly Midland U.S. a fried cruller.

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Bismarck ¹ British  

/ ˈbɪzmɑːk /

noun

1. a city in North Dakota, on the Missouri River: the state capital. Pop: 56 344 (2003 est)

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Bismarck ² British  

/ ˈbɪsmark /

noun

1. Prince Otto ( Eduard Leopold ) von (ˈɔto fɔn), called the Iron Chancellor . 1815–98, German statesman; prime minister of Prussia (1862–90). Under his leadership Prussia defeated Austria and France, and Germany was united. In 1871 he became the first chancellor of the German Reich

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Example Sentences

To conduct the study, researchers sequenced the genomes of 177 people from 12 populations across Near Oceania, the southwestern Pacific region that includes Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and the Solomon Islands.

From Science Daily • Jun. 14, 2026

Appeared in the April 4, 2026, print edition as 'Trump and Bismarck in the Same Sentence'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

So concludes a character in “Effingers,” Gabriele Tergit’s magnificent saga of German-Jewish life from the era of Bismarck to World War II viewed through the generations of the family for which it is named.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

AMC has closed down locations in Bismarck, Devil’s Lake and Grand Forks — three cities with many times the population of Hebron’s 794 residents.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

In 1972 I visited such a village on Malai Islet, in the Siassi island group, off the medium-sized island of Umboi, off the larger Bismarck island of New Britain.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond