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Verein

American  
[fer-ahyn, vuh-rahyn] / fɛrˈaɪn, vəˈraɪn /

noun

German.

plural

Vereine,

plural

Vereins
  1. a union, association, or society.


Example Sentences

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We walk around the block from the station, past the Senckenberg Natural History Museum Frankfurt, to thePhysikalischer Verein, the local physicists’ society, which predates Goethe University Frankfurt’s 1914 founding.

From Scientific American • Feb. 8, 2022

The local Turn Verein Hall — which doubled as a gym — closed in the 1940s, but the community renovated another nearby venue, the Cat Spring Agricultural Society Hall.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2019

"Is Verein für Leibesübungen Borussia Mönchengladbach the longest team name in football?" asked Robert Bashford and Justin Walker back in 2005.

From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2010

Verein members each handle the individual tax and legal ethics regulations in their own country.

From Newsweek

The work was written upon a commission given by the Cecilien Verein of Frankfort in 1831; but it was not produced until May 22, 1836, on the occasion of the Lower Rhine Festival at Düsseldorf.

From The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers by Upton, George P. (George Putnam)