BONN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bonn mean? 

• BONN (noun)
  The noun BONN has 1 sense:

1. a city in western Germany on the Rhine River; was the capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1989

  Familiarity information: BONN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BONN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in western Germany on the Rhine River; was the capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1989

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Bonn" is a part of...):

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)

 Context examples 

At Coblentz we had a lovely time, for some students from Bonn, with whom Fred got acquainted on the boat, gave us a serenade.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)