Ostend definition

ō-stĕndə
(obsolete) To exhibit; to manifest.

Mercy to mean offenders we'll ostend. "” J. Webster.

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(place) Seaport in NW Belgium, on the North Sea.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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A city of northwest Belgium on the North Sea west of Bruges. It was a German submarine base during World War I and was severely damaged by Allied bombing during World War II.
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Origin of ostend

  • Latin ostendere to show.

    From Wiktionary

Ostend Sentence Examples

  • It is more bracing than Ostend, and has a fine parade over a mile in length.

  • Belgium and Great Britain became joint-proprietors of the cables between Ramsgate and Ostend and Dover and De la Panne (near Fumes).

  • It was found originally in an oyster-farm at Ostend.

  • His information showed that Wellington held the western half of Belgium from the Brussels-Charleroi road to the Scheldt, that his base of operations was Ostend, and that his headquarters were at Brussels.

  • A weekly service between Constantza and Constantinople is conducted by state-owned steamers, including the fast mail and passenger boats in connexion with the Ostend and Orient expresses.

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