Bonn

American  

[bon, bawn] / bɒn, bɔn /

noun

1. a city in W Germany, on the Rhine: seat of the government; former capital of West Germany.

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Bonn British  

/ bɒn, bɔn /

noun

1. a city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia on the Rhine: the former capital (1949–90) of West Germany; university (1786). Pop: 311 052 (2003 est)

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Bonn Cultural  

1. Former capital of the Federal Republic of Germany and still home to most of the German government's bureaucracy, located in the western part of Germany, on the Rhine River.

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The Constitution for West Germany was drafted in Bonn after World War II. Bonn became West Germany's capital in 1949 and reunified Germany's capital in 1990, but it has since lost that distinction to Berlin.

Example Sentences

Researchers at the University of Bonn have now uncovered how the human brain handles this task.

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The agricultural economist is member of the Transdisciplinary Research Area "Sustainable Futures" at the University of Bonn and the Cluster of Excellence "PhenoRob -- Robotics and Phenotyping for Sustainable Crop Production."

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Eating mostly oatmeal for just two days may significantly reduce cholesterol, according to a clinical trial from the University of Bonn published in Nature Communications.

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"The filter systems available so far, however, have various disadvantages," explains Dr. Leandra Hamann from the Institute for Organismic Biology at the University of Bonn.

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"This process works on consensus, and consensus means if someone objected to our bid, it would go to Bonn."

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