MUNICH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Munich mean? 

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

1. the capital and largest city of Bavaria in southwestern Germany

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUNICH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Bavaria in southwestern Germany

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Muenchen; Munich

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

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

Bavaria (a state in southern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory)

 Context examples 

Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich the year after the Franco-Prussian War.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dr Richard Merrill, one of the authors of the paper, based at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, said: It explains why hybrid butterflies are so rare – there is a strong genetic preference for similar partners which mostly stops inter-species breeding.

(Butterflies are genetically wired to choose a mate that looks just like them, University of Cambridge)

Scientists at the Helmholtz Center, in Munich, were able to show that the herbal active substance, celastrol, used in Chinese medicine, leads to a significant weight loss and to an improvement of diabetes in obese mice.

(German scientists find potential treatment for obesity, Agência Brasil)