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bremen

/ˈbɹɛmən/

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What does bremen mean?

proper noun

  1. The capital city of the state of Bremen, in northwest Germany, on the Weser river.
  2. A state of Germany, composed of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven.
  3. A community in the Rural Municipality of Bayne No. 371, Saskatchewan, Canada.
More meanings (12)

proper noun

  1. An unincorporated community in Cullman County, Alabama.
  2. A city in Haralson County and Carroll County, Georgia.
  3. A township in Cook County, Illinois.
  4. An unincorporated community in Jo Daviess County, Illinois.
  5. An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Illinois.
  6. A town in German Township, Marshall County, Indiana.
  7. An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Kansas.
  8. A minor city in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.
  9. A town and village therein, in Lincoln County, Maine.
  10. A township in Pine County, Minnesota.
  11. An unincorporated community in Wells County, North Dakota.
  12. A village in Fairfield County, Ohio.
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IPA pronunciation

/ˈbɹɛmən/

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The predestinated day arrived, and we duly met the ship Jungfrau, Derick De Deer, master, of Bremen.
Herman MelvilleMoby Dick; Or, The WhaleProject Gutenberg ebook #2701
Tilly pursued his victory, made himself master of the Weser and Brunswick, and forced the king to retire into Bremen.
Friedrich SchillerThe History of the Thirty Years' WarTranslated by A. J. W. (Alexander James William) MorrisonProject Gutenberg ebook #566
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Sometimes their parents or elders turn to children and ask them "if they would like to be shown the Bremen geese."
Alexander Francis ChamberlainThe Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-DayProject Gutenberg ebook #7966
Famous among these attempts was that made as late as the beginning of the eighteenth century by two Bremen theologians, Hase and Iken.
Andrew Dickson WhiteHistory of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomProject Gutenberg ebook #505
Being confined, at Bremen, in a dungeon, on the third story of the prison of that town, he contrived to let himself down without exciting the vigilance of the sentinels, and to swim across the Weser, though heavily laden with irons.
Charles MackayMemoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #636