Hamburg

[ ham-burg; German hahm-boork ]

noun

1. a state in N Germany. 288 sq. mi. (746 sq. km).
2. a city in and the capital of this state, on the Elbe River: the largest seaport in continental Europe.
3. a town in W New York.

Hamburg

/ ˈhæmbɜːɡ /

noun

1. a city-state and port in NW Germany, on the River Elbe: the largest port in Germany; a founder member of the Hanseatic League; became a free imperial city in 1510 and a state of the German empire in 1871; university (1919); extensive shipyards. Pop: 1 734 083 (2003 est)

Hamburg

1. City in northern Germany on the Elbe River , near where it meets the North Sea .

Notes

Hamburg is Germany's most important industrial center. It was one of the most heavily bombed German cities during World War II .

Example Sentences

Few places outside the United States felt the reverberations from the attacks more than the port city of Hamburg.

From Washington Post

Until that happens and until it’s clear how well the vaccines prevent transmission, other safety measures will still be needed, Hamburg stressed.

From Science News

So when a meteorite fell on a frozen lake in Hamburg, Michigan in early 2018 and was recovered within two days by a meteorite hunter who then brought it to the Field Museum in Chicago, scientists were intrigued.

From Popular-Science

Without meteorite hunter Robert Ward and private collector Terry Boudreaux, he says, the Hamburg meteorite might not have been recovered before it was exposed to liquid water and its original organic compounds mixed up with terrestrial compounds.

From Popular-Science

Hamburg is impressed by the accelerated timeline of the Covid-19 efforts.

From Freakonomics

Outposts budded in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Geneva, and various other burgs, including, yes, Amsterdam.

From The Daily Beast

In July 1943 the full horror of total war was visited on the German city of Hamburg.

From The Daily Beast

The Indra Musik Club, site of the first Beatles gig in Hamburg, still hosts live music.

From The Daily Beast

John Lennon once said, “I might have been born in Liverpool, but I grew up in Hamburg.”

From The Daily Beast

The last two Hamburg gigs, in November and December of 1962, involved another 90 hours of performing.

From The Daily Beast

Her mother was from Hamburg, and had taken lessons of Deppe there when they were both quite young.

From Project Gutenberg

There are any number of these latter in Hamburg, and you have no idea how fascinating many of them are—so handsome and so bright.

From Project Gutenberg

The Marshal reached his headquarters at Hamburg early in February, and soon found his hands full.

From Project Gutenberg

Hamburg writhed impotent at his feet and the "heavy arm of justice fell on the canaille."

From Project Gutenberg

He had laid in huge supplies, and built a bridge of wood two leagues long joining Haarburg and Hamburg.

From Project Gutenberg