HAMBURG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hamburg mean? 

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

1. a port city in northern Germany on the Elbe River that was founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century and is today the largest port in Germany; in 1241 it formed an alliance with Lubeck that became the basis for the Hanseatic League

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAMBURG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port city in northern Germany on the Elbe River that was founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century and is today the largest port in Germany; in 1241 it formed an alliance with Lubeck that became the basis for the Hanseatic League

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)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Holonyms ("Hamburg" 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)

Holonyms ("Hamburg" is a member of...):

Hanseatic League (a commercial and defensive confederation of free cities in northern Germany and surrounding areas; formed in 1241 and most influential in the 14th century when it included over 100 towns and functioned as an independent political power; the last official assembly was held in 1669)

 Context examples 

Well, my dear, I got to Hull all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This means that double-star systems of the type studied here are excellent candidates to host habitable planets, despite the large variations in the amount of starlight hypothetical planets in such a system would receive, said Max Popp, associate research scholar at Princeton University in New Jersey, and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany.

(Earth-Sized 'Tatooine' Planets Could Be Habitable, NASA)

Hamburg grapes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)