Essen

[ es-uhn ]

noun

1. a city in W Germany: the chief city of the Ruhr River valley.

Essen

/ ˈɛsən /

noun

1. a city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia: the leading administrative centre of the Ruhr; university. Pop: 589 499 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

This is the “good price” offered by two small-boat smugglers to an undercover BBC journalist in Essen - a western German city where many migrants live or pass through.

From BBC

"We had Margot, from Essen, who was living with us when I was born."

From BBC

On Thursday two Greens deputies were harassed while campaigning in Essen in western Germany and one was hit in the face, police said.

From BBC

To explore these questions, researchers from the Social Brain Lab at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and the University Hospital Essen conducted a large-scale analysis of studies exploring touch interventions.

From Science Daily

Other cities including Hamburg, Bonn, Dortmund and Essen, also saw violence.

From BBC