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BONN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Bonn mean?
• BONN (noun)
The noun BONN has 1 sense:
1. a city in western Germany on the Rhine River; was the capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1989
Familiarity information: BONN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city in western Germany on the Rhine River; was the capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1989
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Bonn" 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)
Context examples
At Coblentz we had a lovely time, for some students from Bonn, with whom Fred got acquainted on the boat, gave us a serenade.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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