Swabia

American  

[swey-bee-uh] / ˈsweɪ bi ə /

noun

1. a region and medieval duchy in SW Germany: it constituted the area presently included in the states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, in S Germany.

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Swabia British  

/ ˈsweɪbɪə /

noun

1. German name: Schwaben.  a region and former duchy (from the 10th century to 1313) of S Germany, now part of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria: part of West Germany until 1990

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Other Word Forms

• Swabian
  noun

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Swabia

German officials sent the pair to the town of Althengstett, next door to Ostelsheim, in the rural Swabia region, where many people work in agriculture or the region’s famous auto industry.

From New York Times ● May 28, 2023

The team recruited people from a large database that comprised all newly diagnosed ALS cases in Swabia, a southwestern region of Germany.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2021

Bashobi, San Jose, USA My favourite term of endearment comes from Swabia, the area of Germany around Stuttgart.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2013

He realized early on that Swabia, the southwest region of Germany he came from, was not an ideal base for his work on the cell biology of marine sponges and algae.

From Nature ● Feb. 23, 2011

The Dukes of Wirtemberg have another Dignity more solid than the former, viz. to be joint Directors of the Circle of Swabia, with the Bishop of Constance.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz