Lower Saxony [ loh -er ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈloʊ ər / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun
a state in NW Germany. 18,294 sq. mi. (47,380 sq. km). Capital : Hanover.
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How to use Lower Saxony in a sentence The AfD regional branches in both Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein have long been split between hardliners and moderates.
Dossi initially was listed in critical condition with wounds to his arm and lower back.
Girls raised in households with more equitable fathers show lower rates of unwanted sex.
Since then, the rising gap between the rich and middle- and lower-income families has risen to the fore.
States were encouraged and allowed to lower standards to make it appear they were improving.
I learned that he was working and living in the Lower East Side, delivering orders for an Italian restaurant and raising two kids.
On the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.
First a shower of shells dropping all along the lower ridges and out over the surface of the Bay.
There are many more good dwellings on this plain than in the rural portion of Lower Italy.
It depends upon the fact that bile acids lower surface tension.
A serious insurrection occurred at Dresden, in Saxony, but was in a few days put down.
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British Dictionary definitions for Lower Saxony
noun
a state of N Germany, on the North Sea and including the E Frisian Islands: a leading European producer of petroleum. Capital: Hanover. Pop: 7 993 000 (2003 est). Area: 47 408 sq km (18 489 sq miles) German name: Niedersachsen
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