Mannheim

American  

[man-hahym, mahn-hahym] / ˈmæn haɪm, ˈmɑn haɪm /

noun

1. Karl 1893–1947, German sociologist.

2. a city in SW Germany at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar rivers.

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Mannheim ¹ British  

/ ˈmanhaim, ˈmænhaɪm /

noun

1. a city in SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar: one of Europe's largest inland harbours; a cultural and musical centre. Pop: 308 353 (2003 est)

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Mannheim ² British  

/ ˈmanhaɪm /

noun

1. Karl (karl). 1893–1947, Hungarian sociologist, living in Britain from 1933: author of Ideology and Utopia (1929) and Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction (1941)

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Example Sentences

Many of these sites have since been converted to housing developments or business parks, while others, like the Benjamin Franklin Village in Mannheim, have become modern residential quarters.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

Many Germans "had hoped for much faster change," political scientist Marc Debus of Mannheim University told AFP.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

But Mannheim didn’t think of generations as concrete groupings that emerge at regularly spaced intervals, and he certainly wasn’t proposing that we could understand individual behavior or consumption trends through this framework.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2025

The scale of the heat pumps was determined partly by limits on the size of machinery that could be transported through the streets of Mannheim, or potentially via barges along the Rhine.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025

We stayed a day at Mannheim, and on the fifth from our departure from Strasburgh, arrived at Mainz.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley