Bergen

[bur-guhn, ber-guhn]

noun

1. Edgar, 1903–78, U.S. ventriloquist.

2. a city in southwestern Norway, on the Atlantic Ocean.

3. a first name.

Bergen

¹

noun

1. a port in SW Norway: chief city in medieval times. Pop: 237 430 (2004 est)

2. the Flemish name for Mons

bergen

²

/ ˈbɜːɡən /

noun

1. a large rucksack with a capacity of over 50 litres

Example Sentences

Braekhus was adopted from an orphanage in Cartagena at the age of two and grew up in Sandviken, a neighbourhood of Bergen.

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An aviation rarity touched down in the Norway's second city of Bergen earlier this month.

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Malle, the daughter of actress Candice Bergen and French film director Louis Malle, grew up splitting her time between Paris and Los Angeles until her father died when she was 10 years old.

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Olsen: And it’s also been reported there have been some really exciting guest stars in this season: Michael J. Fox, Candice Bergen.

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It could be as simple as Melissa Rivers and her fellow executive producer Erich Bergen saving other performers for an audience more accustomed to comedy unfettered by broadcast standards and practices.

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