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  munster

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  muenster.
• Munster
  Munster

  noun

  a province in SW Republic of Ireland. 9,316 sq. mi. (24,130 sq. km).
• Münster
  Münster

  noun

  a city in NW Germany: treaty of Westphalia 1648.
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  münster

  noun

  a variant of muenster

munster

¹ American  

[muhn-ster, moon-] / ˈmʌn stər, ˈmʊn- /

noun

(often initial capital letter)

1. muenster.

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Munster ² American  

[muhn-ster] / ˈmʌn stər /

noun

1. a province in SW Republic of Ireland. 9,316 sq. mi. (24,130 sq. km).

2. a town in NW Indiana.

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Münster ³ American  

[myn-stuhr] / ˈmün stər /

noun

1. a city in NW Germany: treaty of Westphalia 1648.

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Munster ¹ British  

/ ˈmʌnstə /

noun

1. a province of SW Republic of Ireland: the largest of the four provinces and historically a kingdom; consists of the counties of Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, and Waterford. Capital: Cork. Pop: 1 100 614 (2002). Area: 24 125 sq km (9315 sq miles)

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Münster ² British  

/ ˈmynstər /

noun

1. a city in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia on the Dortmund-Ems Canal: one of the treaties comprising the Peace of Westphalia (1648) was signed here; became capital of Prussian Westphalia in 1815. Pop: 269 579 (2003 est)

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münster ³ British  

/ ˈmynstə /

noun

1. a variant of muenster

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At that time a cloister was called a munster.

From Pine Needles by Susan Warner

Apple shares rose 3.6% to $326.57 after analyst Gene Munster, a co-founder of Deepwater Asset Management, said design merits of the new foldable iPhone Duo could generate higher-than-anticipated demand for the device.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

A researcher from the University of Munster in Germany also contributed to the study.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

“Tesla deliveries are the first sign we’re exiting the EV winter that started in March of 2024,” Munster wrote on X.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

Fuels for Ireland said that 100 garage forecourts had run out of fuel, mainly in Munster and the west of Ireland.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026

Munster is almost as far north and west as you can get and still be in Indiana.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

The study, “Decomposing momentum: The forgotten component,” was conducted by three researchers at Germany’s University of Münster: Pascal Büsing, Hannes Mohrschladt and Susanne Siedhoff.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

Covering this period, Mr. Overhoff, a professor of history at the University of Münster, perhaps relies too heavily on secondary sources, and repeats some of their misconceptions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

“The community is excited about any lunar samples being returned from anywhere in the SPA basin,” says planetary geologist Carolyn van der Bogert of the University of Münster.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 23, 2024

Working together with British colleagues, Dr. Christian Vollmer from the Institute of Mineralogy at Münster University has examined one of these time capsules, and a very special one -- the Winchcombe meteorite.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024

In Cologne one in every 215, in Aachen one in every 110, in Münster one in every sixty-one, in Paderborn one in every thirty-three, was a Catholic priest or member of an order.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz

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