Oberland
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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In Valais and Bernese Oberland, tourists heading for ski holidays were hit by the disruption.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025
Mr May is known to have a love of Lucerne, the Bernese Oberland and the resort of Zermatt, with its views of the Matterhorn.
From BBC • Aug. 15, 2016
The most ambitious Alpine jaunt was undertaken by Byron and his visiting Cambridge chum Hobhouse, into the breathtaking Bernese Oberland.
From New York Times • May 27, 2011
Old military bunkers in the Bernese Oberland now serve as maximum-security vaults for nervous Europeans.
From The Guardian • Oct. 9, 2010
In fact, excluding Mont Blanc itself, the mountains of which the chain is made up are less important than those of the Oberland and the central Pennine groups.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Whymper, Edward
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