Munich

[ myoo-nik ]

/ ˈmyu nɪk /

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noun

German München. a city in and the capital of Bavaria, in SW Germany.

any dishonorable appeasement.

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Words nearby Munich

mungo, Munhall, muni, muni bond fund, munic., Munich, Munich Pact, municipal, municipal bond, municipal bond fund, municipal bonds

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How to use Munich in a sentence

There’s a handled glass from Munich, which I don’t use but which is — thanks to its impressive size — potentially very useful.
Mementos from around the world remind this writer of what he loves most about travel: Food.|Will Hawkes|March 26, 2021|Washington Post
One of the first systems of this kind was deployed in a BMW plant in Munich in 2017.
Make way for robots|Katie McLean|February 24, 2021|MIT Technology Review
The size difference may have driven the male’s genitalia to be quite large — nearly 20 percent of its body length — to be a better fit to his mate, herpetologist Frank Glaw of the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Munich and colleagues suggest.
A new chameleon species may be the world’s tiniest reptile|Jonathan Lambert|February 4, 2021|Science News
Kavalek, who was competing at a tournament in Poland at the time, decided not to return home and instead join his father in Munich.
Lubomir Kavalek, international chess grandmaster, dies at 77|Emily Langer|January 20, 2021|Washington Post

We had several suspected cases earlier on, which were all negative, but then we were not so surprised that one day, on January 27 in Munich, one of these cases proved positive.
The inside story of Germany’s coordinated covid response|Tate Ryan-Mosley|August 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review
The risk to his life was great enough that he had to flee Munich when Hitler attempted to seize power in November 1923.
The Catholic Philosopher Who Took on Hitler|John Henry Crosby|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hitchcock went to Munich as part of an Anglo-German production team.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Outposts budded in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Geneva, and various other burgs, including, yes, Amsterdam.
The Life and Art of Radical Provocateur—and Commune Leader—Otto Muehl|Anthony Haden-Guest|September 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To target the resurgent Nazi movement, X-2 recruited some 13 agents in Munich and had another dozen under consideration.
On the Trail of Nazi Counterfeiters|Dr. Kevin C. Ruffner|September 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On the television screen in her small Paris flat, Sylvia carefully followed the events in Munich.
Mossad’s Greatest Female Assassin: An Excerpt From ‘Sylvia Rafael’|Ram Oren,   Moti Kfir|September 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A pupil of her father until his death, when she became a student under Gabriel Max, in Munich, for a year.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
I saw you go white once before, when I tried to make you talk about Munich; and the romantic Flora was full of surmises.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Jaffery, to give himself an appetite for dinner, ordered half a litre of Munich beer.
Jaffery|William J. Locke
A glance at the map will show that, as Napoleon said, he could then in an emergency reach Munich like lightning.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte|William Milligan Sloane
They had expected a repetition of Moreau's advance by Munich; instead, they were called on to defend their capital a second time.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte|William Milligan Sloane

British Dictionary definitions for Munich

Munich

/ (ˈmjuːnɪk) /

noun

a city in S Germany, capital of the state of Bavaria, on the Isar River: became capital of Bavaria in 1508; headquarters of the Nazi movement in the 1920s; a major financial, commercial, and manufacturing centre. Pop: 1 247 873 (2003 est)German name: München

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Cultural definitions for Munich

Munich

Capital of Bavaria, located in southern Germany near the Bavarian Alps; a commercial, industrial, transportation, communications, and cultural center.

notes for Munich

Munich was the scene of the Nazi party's rise to power; National Socialism (Nazism) was founded there in 1918, and Adolf Hitler led an attempted revolution in Munich in 1923, the Beer Hall Putsch.

notes for Munich

The Munich Pact, drawn up in 1938, forced Czechoslovakia to give up territory to the Nazis.

notes for Munich

During World War II, the Allies bombed much of the city. After the war, it was the largest city in the American occupation zone.