Birmingham

[ bur-ming-uhm bur-ming-ham ]

noun

1. a city in West Midlands, in central England.
2. a city in central Alabama.
3. a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.

Birmingham

/ ˈbɜːmɪŋəm /

noun

1. an industrial city in central England, in Birmingham unitary authority, in the West Midlands: the second largest city in Great Britain; two cathedrals; three universities (1900, 1966, 1992). Pop: 970 892 (2001) informal Brummie
2. a unitary authority in central England, in the West Midlands. Pop: 992 100 (2003 est). Area: 283 sq km (109 sq miles)
3. ˈbɜːmɪŋˌhæm an industrial city in N central Alabama: rich local deposits of coal, iron ore, and other minerals. Pop: 236 620 (2003 est)

Birmingham

¹

1. City in central England ; England's second-largest city, after London , and an important industrial and transportation center.

Birmingham

²

1. City in north-central Alabama ; largest city in the state.

Notes

Birmingham was the site of extreme racial violence during the civil rights movement . Although associated with specific race riots in 1963, Birmingham came to represent, as a whole, southern white resistance to integration . ( See “ Letter from Birmingham Jail .”)

Birmingham is known as the “ Pittsburgh of the South” for its steel and iron production.

Example Sentences

Next Monday, the National Labor Relations Board will mail ballots to 5,805 workers at the facility near Birmingham, who will then have seven weeks to decide whether they want the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union to represent them.

From Washington Post

Garcia lives in Birmingham and works on hunger advocacy for Alabama Arise, a nonprofit dedicated to the interests of the state’s low-income residents.

From Eater

At a second hearing on the streetlights in October 2017, Birmingham cited public safety as a possible use case for the technology.

From Voice of San Diego

In the first draft, the Watsons were going to Florida, not Birmingham.

From Washington Post

These are mostly large hospitals, such as the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s flagship facility.

From Washington Post

The 20 locals whom More claimed to have had sex with in Birmingham, however, seemed to enjoy their van time.

From The Daily Beast

“It obviously sends out the message that this kind of thing goes on in Birmingham,” Mahmood told the Birmingham Mail.

From The Daily Beast

Pete stuck his thumb out at the age of 17 and hitch hiked out of Birmingham, England.

From The Daily Beast

Since then, of course, he has sold everything that comes off the desk in the study in Birmingham to Hollywood.

From The Daily Beast

The Saab makes its way slowly through Bloomfield Hills, the tony Detroit suburb next to Birmingham.

From The Daily Beast

In 1848 there were only seven priests in Birmingham, and but seventy in the whole diocese.

From Project Gutenberg

Slate slabs were originally tried for sleepers on the Birmingham and London line.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. King and Mr. Lewis walking together in Birmingham, a chimney sweeper and his boy passed them.

From Project Gutenberg

The price of salt at one period of the long Peninsular war rose to £30 per ton, being retailed in Birmingham at 4l.

From Project Gutenberg

More than nine-tenths of these were made in Birmingham, and, of course, our tradesmen were not backward with their own specimens.

From Project Gutenberg