Weimar

American  

[vahy-mahr, wahy-] / ˈvaɪ mɑr, ˈwaɪ- /

noun

1. a city in Thuringia, in central Germany.

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Weimar British  

/ ˈvaimar /

noun

1. a city in E central Germany, in Thuringia: a cultural centre in the 18th and early 19th century; scene of the adoption (1919) of the constitution of the Weimar Republic. Pop: 64 409 (2003 est)

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Other Word Forms

• Weimarian
  adjective

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Example Sentences

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Weimar

Rod Serling’s television breakthrough, the collapse of Weimar Germany, Edward Hopper’s lonely vision and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

He seems to have missed the Bauhaus’s forced departure from Weimar in 1925, and the arrival that year of Hitler, recently out of prison after the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The economic crisis of 1929 exacerbated the constitutional weaknesses of the Weimar Republic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Germany continued paying debt from the Weimar Republic into the 21st century.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

The Allies had chosen to deal with officials of Germany’s newly formed Weimar Republic, leaving the German army uninvolved.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

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