Bingen

[bing-uhn]

noun

1. Hildegard von Hildegard of BingenSibyl of the Rhine, 1098–1178, German nun, healer, writer, and composer.

2. a town in W Germany, on the Rhine River: whirlpool; tourist center.

Bingen

/ ˈbɪŋən /

noun

1. a town in W Germany on the Rhine: wine trade and tourist centre. Pop: 24 716 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

Opera’s 40th anniversary season, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s sincere and compelling “Hildegard,” based on a real-life 12th century abbess and present-day cult figure, St. Hildegard von Bingen.

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One of the report's authors, former top Pentagon intelligence official Kari Bingen, told the BBC that during its war in Ukraine, Russia has already used a variety of other methods - such as cyber attacks and jamming - to hamper satellite communications.

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"Our military, the way our military fights today and the investment in weapons that we make is all contingent on space capabilities," added Ms Bingen, who was the second-highest ranking intelligence official in the US department of defence.

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"Satellites are integral to our daily lives," Ms Bingen added.

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Adding another layer to that theory, German abbess Hildegard of Bingen, around the year 1160, offered that the reason facial hair occurred exclusively around the mouth—rather than, say, on the forehead—was because of men’s hot breath.

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