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INTERLAKEN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Interlaken mean?
• INTERLAKEN (noun)
The noun INTERLAKEN has 1 sense:
1. a popular resort town in the Alps in west central Switzerland
Familiarity information: INTERLAKEN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A popular resort town in the Alps in west central Switzerland
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Interlaken" is a part of...):
Schweiz; Suisse; Svizzera; Swiss Confederation; Switzerland (a landlocked federal republic in central Europe)
Context examples
For a charming week we wandered up the Valley of the Rhone, and then, branching off at Leuk, we made our way over the Gemmi Pass, still deep in snow, and so, by way of Interlaken, to Meiringen.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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