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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Weimar

Weimar in the early 1920s was a bohemia where a young Marlene Dietrich, studying violin in the city, could meet Alma Mahler, the widow of Gustav and former wife of Gropius.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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

In the afternoon, Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler toured Weimar by motorcycle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

A Protestant born in 1885, Weirich opened his shop in Weimar shortly before the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Treaty also installed a democratic government, called the Weimar Republic.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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