Memel

American  

[mey-muhl, mem-uhl] / ˈmeɪ məl, ˈmɛm əl /

noun

1. German name of Klaipeda.

2. the lower course of the Niemen River.

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Memel British  

/ ˈmeːməl /

noun

1. the German name for Klaipeda

2. the lower course of the Neman River

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Example Sentences

The old Lady E * * of Memel understood it otherwise, in her time.

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He was born, as became his warlike soul, at the fortress of Memel, on the Baltic Sea.

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Prussia then suddenly became the dominating power in a vast stretch of country, reaching from Memel to Basle, and at one time saw twenty-six or twenty-seven million Germans marching under its orders.

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He was stationed eight years in Jerusalem, then a short time in Pesth, and then in Memel and Posen, and, lastly, for many years in Frankfort.

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In some places, indeed, it is far greater, e.g. at the mouths of the Elbe and the Weser, in East Holstein, in the delta of the Memel and the environs of Hamburg.

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