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

United officials, on discovering the issue hours before kick-off, dashed to a local sports store in Bergen to get replacements.

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"I asked ChatGPT if there was a ferry from the UK to Norway and it said there was one from Newcastle to Bergen."

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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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