BERLIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Berlin mean? 

• BERLIN (noun)
  The noun BERLIN has 3 senses:

1. capital of Germany located in eastern Germany

2. United States songwriter (born in Russia) who wrote more than 1500 songs and several musical comedies (1888-1989)

3. a limousine with a glass partition between the front and back seats

  Familiarity information: BERLIN used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BERLIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital of Germany located in eastern Germany

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Berlin; German capital

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Berlin"):

West Berlin (the part of Berlin under United States and British and French control until 1989)

Meronyms (members of "Berlin"):

Berliner (an inhabitant of Berlin)

Holonyms ("Berlin" is a part of...):

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)

Derivation:

Berliner (an inhabitant of Berlin)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States songwriter (born in Russia) who wrote more than 1500 songs and several musical comedies (1888-1989)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Berlin; Irving Berlin; Israel Baline

Instance hypernyms:

ballad maker; songster; songwriter (a composer of words or music for popular songs)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A limousine with a glass partition between the front and back seats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("berlin" is a kind of...):

limo; limousine (large luxurious car; usually driven by a chauffeur)

 Context examples 

Co-author of the study, Franz Holker of the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin, said things are at the critical point.

(Study: Earth’s Night Skies Getting Brighter, VOA)

“So far as I can judge the trend of events, you will probably be back in Berlin within the week,” the secretary was saying.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The last I heard of you, your grandfather wrote that he expected you from Berlin.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Kipchoge also set the current official world record for a sanctioned race, of 2 hours 1 minute 39 seconds, last year in Berlin, Germany.

(Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya runs marathon under two hours, Wikinews)

We don't yet know if amino acids are needed for life beyond Earth, but finding the molecules that form amino acids is an important piece of the puzzle, said Nozair Khawaja, who led the research team of the Free University of Berlin.

(New Organic Compounds Found in Enceladus Ice Grains, NASA)

Well, I naturally sent a résumé of the information to Berlin.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. K. told me he was from Berlin, very learned and good, but poor as a church mouse, and gives lessons to support himself and two little orphan nephews whom he is educating here, according to the wishes of his sister, who married an American.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She felt proud to know that he was an honored Professor in Berlin, though only a poor language-master in America, and his homely, hard-working life was much beautified by the spice of romance which this discovery gave it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)