Bern

or Berne

[ burn; German bern ]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Switzerland, in the W part: capital of Bern canton.
2. a canton in W Switzerland. 2,658 sq. mi. (6,885 sq. km). : Bern.

Bern

/ bɛrn; bɜːn /

noun

1. the capital of Switzerland, in the W part, on the Aar River: entered the Swiss confederation in 1353 and became the capital in 1848. Pop: 122 700 (2002 est)
2. a canton of Switzerland, between the French frontier and the Bernese Alps. Capital: Bern. Pop: 950 200 (2002 est). Area: 6884 sq km (2658 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Bern and company hope to extend their computational successes to more realistic theories.

From Quanta Magazine

In just a few years, Bern and his colleagues have used the shortcut to make gravitational wave predictions that already rival state-of-the-art calculations from general relativity.

From Quanta Magazine

Since developing the double copy, Bern has taken advantage of the massively discounted lunch to challenge the conventional wisdom that all particle theories of gravity give nonsensical, infinite answers.

From Quanta Magazine

Bern, Carrasco and others have spent years grinding away at an exotic theory called supergravity, which balances gravitons with partner particles in a mathematically pleasing way.

From Quanta Magazine

Eventually Einstein landed a job at the Patent Office in Bern, and in 1904 he got Besso a job in the same office, so they could work side by side.

From Nautilus

“This is not a question of negligence, but how much negligence,” Bern told The Daily Beast.

From The Daily Beast

“George Kennan was tall, thin, blue-eyed, elegant,” she later wrote of their meeting at a safe house in Bern.

From The Daily Beast

Bobby had shown himself on the road out to Bern a difficult boy, and stupefyingly ignorant.

From Project Gutenberg

Shortly after the hour of the evening meal, a messenger from Bern delivered a letter addressed to the Headmaster.

From Project Gutenberg

Was it in Bern that the police had to hold the crowd back, and clear the squares for their plunging horses to pass?

From Project Gutenberg

Siegfried of the Niebelungen saga originates purely as a mrchen-hero; Dietrich of Bern is an historical personage.

From Project Gutenberg

At Bern, the quaint, beautiful old city of fountains and arcades, the deposed dictatrix of Bavaria found a pleasant asylum.

From Project Gutenberg