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berlin Definition

ber·lin (bər lin′, bʉr′lin′)

noun

  1. a four-wheeled closed carriage with a footman's platform behind, separate from the body
  2. a fine, soft wool yarn

Etymology: after Berlin, where first used

Berlin¹ Definition

Ber·lin (bər lin′)

Berlin, Irving (born Israel Baline) 1888-1989; U.S. composer of popular songs, born in Russia

Berlin² Definition

Ber·lin (bər lin′; Ger ber lēn′)

city and state of E Germany: capital of Germany (1871-1945; 1990-): after WWII and before reunification of Germany in 1990, it was divided into four sectors of occupation (U.S., British, French, and Soviet); the eastern (Soviet) sector (East Berlin) was the capital of East Germany; the three western sectors (West Berlin) constituted an exclave state of West Germany: 343 sq mi (888 sq km); pop. 3,417,000

Berlin² Related Forms
Ber·lin′er (bər lin′ər) noun
berlin Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • erect: Erected a berlin mistakenly believed in that property lay nobels were instantly prominent.

Modifies a noun

  • stoke: A life extravagantly in the morning of an evening in berlin stokes g. A discreet little spend time with.
  • Feb: Uranium rays had its own distinct in berlin feb.
  • wall: To search for Berlin Wall, you must enter " berlin wall " .
  • trilogy: Much credit goes to Eno, who was no doubt a HUGE part of the ' berlin trilogy ' .
Berlin Quotes

Away with the music of Broadway! Be off with your Irving Berlin! Oh, I'd give no quarter to Kern or Cole Porter and Gershwin keeps pounding on tin. How can I be civil when hearing this drivel? It's only for night-clubbing souses. Oh, give me the free 'n'easy waltz that is Viennesey And go tell the band if they want a hand the waltz must be Strauss's!

—Gershwin, Ira originally Israel Gershowitz

Berlin by Christmas.

—Anonymous

Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.

—Buruma, Ian

There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

—Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba even before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

—McGovern, George S(tanley)

When you see how in this happy country the lowest and poorest member of society takes an interest in all public affairs; when you see how high and low, rich and poor, are all willing to declare their feelings and convictions; when you see howa carter, a common sailor, a beggar is still a man, nay, even more, an Englishmanöthen, believe me, you find yourself very differently affected fromtheexperienceyoufeelwhenstaring atoursoldiers drilling in Berlin.

—Moritz, Karl Philipp