Bergen

American  

[bur-guhn, ber-guhn] / ˈbɜr gən, ˈbɛr gən /

noun

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

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

3. a first name.

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Bergen ¹ British  

noun

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

2. the Flemish name for Mons

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bergen ² British  

/ ˈbɜːɡən /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Billed as the world's first commercial carbon storage service, last August, Norway's Northern Lights project, began storing CO2 under the seabed off Bergen.

From BBC

Prior to the Journal, Heather was a news reporter at the New York Post, amNewYork and the Herald News division of the Bergen Record.

From The Wall Street Journal

Before that he was a reporter for the Bergen Record, in New Jersey, and the Jewish Daily Forward, in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal

This instability created lawless zones such as the “neutral ground” of Bergen County in northeast New Jersey and the Pine Barrens in the south, where hardened “banditti” flourished.

From The Wall Street Journal

He enrolled as an undergraduate student at Bergen Community College in Paramus, N.J., in 2011, but after depleting his savings and sleeping on friends’ couches for months, he felt he needed to make a change.

From The Wall Street Journal