Ostend meaning

ō-stĕn'də
Seaport in NW Belgium, on the North Sea.
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(obsolete) To exhibit; to manifest.

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

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.

Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • 1854) the famous Ostend Manifesto.

  • 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.

  • of Ostend and 12 m.

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