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Rhineland

American  
[rahyn-land, -luhnd] / ˈraɪnˌlænd, -lənd /

noun

  1. that part of Germany W of the Rhine.

  2. Rhine Province.


Rhineland British  
/ ˈraɪnˌlænd, -lənd /

noun

  1. German name: Rheinland.  the region of Germany surrounding the Rhine

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Rhineland Cultural  
  1. Picturesque region of Germany, along the Rhine River.


Example Sentences

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Hildegard is best known for the music she produced in her Rhineland German monastery and for the transcriptions of her luminous visions.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

Earthiness teetered on earthbound in the symphony’s exultant depictions of the Rhineland.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023

Among those arrested were four people in Bavaria, 15 in North Rhine-Westphalia, and 10 in the southwestern German state of Rhineland Palatinate, and police seized potential evidence at dozens of locations including homes and offices.

From Reuters • May 3, 2023

“Ashkenazi Jews emerge in the Rhineland as migrants,” says Leonard Rutgers, a historian at Utrecht University and a co-author on the Cell paper.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 30, 2022

On the morning of March 7, thirty thousand German troops had rolled into the demilitarized Rhineland, in open defiance of both the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact to which Germany was a signatory.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown