NUREMBERG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nuremberg mean? 

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

1. a city in southeastern Germany; site of Allied trials of Nazi war criminals (1945-46)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NUREMBERG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in southeastern Germany; site of Allied trials of Nazi war criminals (1945-46)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Nuremberg; Nurnberg

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Nuremberg" 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 

The houses of the old town—the side away from us—are all red-roofed, and seem piled up one over the other anyhow, like the pictures we see of Nuremberg.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

To gain insight into this process, a team led by Dr. Jens Titze at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany took the opportunity to study men participating in a simulated space flight program.

(How the body regulates salt levels, NIH)