Arnhem

American  

[ahrn-hem, ahr-nuhm] / ˈɑrn hɛm, ˈɑr nəm /

noun

1. a city in the central Netherlands, on the Rhine River: World War II battle 1944.

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Arnhem British  

/ ˈɑːnəm /

noun

1. a city in the E Netherlands, capital of Gelderland province, on the Rhine: site of a World War II battle. Pop: 142 000 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

The Battle of Arnhem was part of an Allied plan to liberate the Netherlands and force a route into Germany during World War Two, with the battle taking place between 17 and 25 September 1944.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2024

“The silence was deafening,” said Alastair King, the head of the Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation, or A.L.P.A., a nonprofit organization that operates the Lajamanu store and others in remote communities.

From New York Times • May 10, 2024

The station is also well situated to collect signals intelligence over Australia and New Zealand and telemetry data on rockets launched from Australia's new Arnhem Space Centre, it said.

From Reuters • Nov. 1, 2023

They depict stars as well as a particular river in Arnhem Land, or perhaps stars reflected in that river.

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2023

I know both of them well, they sometimes use my boat for the journey to Arnhem, and as they are such nice people, I could not refuse them this service.

From The Chief Justice A Novel by Franzos, Karl Emil