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Verein

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

noun

German.
Vereine, plural Vereins plural
  1. a union, association, or society.


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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

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

From Newsweek

The move would create a giant even bigger than Krupp-Bochumer Verein, with a 6,000,000-ton capacity and nearly $1 billion in sales.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had cast my first presidential vote for him, at Turn Verein Hall, Bush Street, November 6, 1864.

From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Murdock, Charles A. (Charles Albert)

I loathe all these Wagner-Vereine, all these Vereine, all these flocks of sheep who have to huddle together to be able to baa in unison.

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Cannan, Gilbert

Senator Chamberlain of Oregon presented a petition from the Staatsverband Deutschsprechender Vereine von Oregon, demanding the Ambassador's removal, while the Irish-American press and politicians became extremely vocal.

From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Hendrick, Burton Jesse

At moments they almost rival the dignified showing of the processions of the German Turn Vereins which are also often seen in our city streets.

From The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets by Addams, Jane

Her speciality now was the manufacturing of flags and banners since Paul had founded quite a number of Vereins among the settlers on his estate—latterly a Military Verein, and one for Conservative electors.

From The Malady of the Century by Nordau, Max Simon

The Guilds, Vereins or Associations may organize, equip and foster schools of such character as train directly for their particular lines of work.

From The Condition and Tendencies of Technical Education in Germany by Chamberlain, Arthur Henry

The circumnutating movements of young leaves in 33 genera, belonging to 25 families, widely distributed * 'Ueber die Bewegungen der Faden der Spirogyra princeps: Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg,' 1874, p.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

Connected with The Grateful Dead by Freudenberg in a review of Simrock in Jahrbücher des Vereins von Alterthumsfreunden im Rheinlande, xxv.

From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gerould, Gordon Hall

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