Thuringian Forest

American  

noun

1. a forested mountain region in central Germany: a resort area.

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Thuringian Forest British  

noun

1. German name: Thüringer Wald.  a forested mountainous region in E central Germany, rising over 900 m (3000 ft)

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Example Sentences

He deserted, was caught, was sent to the front and deserted again, this time walking hundreds of miles south from Göttingen, in the middle of Germany, through the Thuringian Forest and into the mountains of Tirol, where he hid at high altitude in a hut at Lamsenjoch.

From New York Times

In the Tyrol, and near the Thuringian Forest, in the middle states of the ill-organized confederacy, and wherever forests abound, there the peasants spend much of their time in making toys.

From Project Gutenberg

Our town stands, as all men know, in a nook of the Thuringian Forest, facing south and west towards Hesse, of which my Lady Rotha, Countess of Heritzburg, holds it, though all the land about is Saxon, belonging either to Coburg, or Weimar, or Altenburg, or the upper Duchy.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus, in the Thuringian forest, the wages of the haulers of wood are very low.

From Project Gutenberg

N. of the slope of the Thuringian forest, 17 m.

From Project Gutenberg