Heidelberg

[ hahyd-l-burg; German hahyd-l-berk ]

/ ˈhaɪd lˌbɜrg; German ˈhaɪd lˌbɛrk /

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noun

a city in NW Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany: university, founded 1386.

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Words nearby Heidelberg

heh, he-huckleberry, Heian, heid, Heidegger, Heidelberg, Heidelberg jaw, Heidelberg man, Heiden, Heidenstam, Heidi

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How to use Heidelberg in a sentence

Kreidberg is the 32-year-old founding director of a new department at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, devoted to studying what the weather is...
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In 2010, two astrophysicists at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, found a workaround.
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In order to include the results post-race, they actually lugged a Heidelberg press to the track and printed it next to the track.
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Take Josee Davis, a 23-year-old house cleaner who rents a trailer with her fiance in Heidelberg, Mississippi.
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Marcel Neeleman works at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.
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So far the current mayor, Mike Duggan, refuses to comment on the Heidelberg Project or the recent fires.
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I think [the Heidelberg Project] is something positive among all the negative news we see about Detroit.
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The Heidelberg Project released a statement after the most recent fire on March 7.
Who Is Burning Down Detroit’s World-Famous Street Art?|James Fassinger|March 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His iconic Party Animal House, part of the world-renowned Heidelberg Project lays in front of him, burned to its foundation.
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Having a look around the Heidelberg with colleagues on his lunch hour was U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman.
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Was a pupil of Caspar Netscher of Heidelberg, whose little pictures are of fabulous value.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
A corps of young Heidelberg students offered themselves and asked that they be taken in one regiment.
Ways of War and Peace|Delia Austrian
But so stand the facts: it is towards Mannheim, not towards Heidelberg that we are now travelling!
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VII. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
Friedrich Wilhelm, who was far from meaning harm or insolence in that Heidelberg affair, hopes there is no grudge remaining.
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VII. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
His Heidelberg friend and hostess sought still to detain him, when the last express from Weimar drove up to the door.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII|John Lord

British Dictionary definitions for Heidelberg

Heidelberg

/ (ˈhaɪdəlˌbɜːɡ, German ˈhaidəlbɛrk) /

noun

a city in SW Germany, in NW Baden-Württemberg on the River Neckar: capital of the Palatinate from the 13th century until 1719; famous castle (begun in the 12th century) and university (1386), the oldest in Germany. Pop: 142 959 (2003 est)

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