LEIPZIG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Leipzig mean? 

• LEIPZIG (noun)
  The noun LEIPZIG has 1 sense:

1. a city in southeastern Germany famous for fairs; formerly a music and publishing center

  Familiarity information: LEIPZIG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEIPZIG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in southeastern Germany famous for fairs; formerly a music and publishing center

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 ("Leipzig" 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 

Lead author on the study Viviane Slon, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) in Leipzig, said We knew from previous studies that Neanderthals and Denisovans must have occasionally had children together (...) But I never thought we would be so lucky as to find an actual offspring of the two groups.

(Fossil genome shows hybrid of two extinct species of human, Wikinews)