Mannheim

American  

[man-hahym, mahn-hahym] / ˈmæn haɪm, ˈmɑn haɪm /

noun

1. Karl 1893–1947, German sociologist.

2. a city in SW Germany at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar rivers.

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Mannheim ¹ British  

/ ˈmanhaim, ˈmænhaɪm /

noun

1. a city in SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar: one of Europe's largest inland harbours; a cultural and musical centre. Pop: 308 353 (2003 est)

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Mannheim ² British  

/ ˈmanhaɪm /

noun

1. Karl (karl). 1893–1947, Hungarian sociologist, living in Britain from 1933: author of Ideology and Utopia (1929) and Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction (1941)

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Example Sentences

The whole idea of slapping a label on people based on when they were born is a 20th-century invention, originating in Hungarian sociologist Karl Mannheim’s 1952 book “The Problem of Generations.”

From Salon

Everllence is currently working on a project in Aalborg, Denmark that will be even more powerful than the system in Mannheim, with a total capacity of 176MW.

From BBC

The findings come from an international research team led by the University of Potsdam and the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim in collaboration with the Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum Archäometrie, and were recently published in Current Biology.

From Science Daily

Mannheim Police issued a request that people avoid the area, but said that there is no further danger to the public.

From BBC

His government had already announced plans earlier this year to resume deportations to Afghanistan and Syria in the wake of a deadly attack by a 25-year-old Afghan man in Mannheim.

From BBC