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Berlin¹

  • /bəˈlɪn/ UK
  • /bɜːˈlɪn/ UK
  • /bɛə̯ˈlɪn/ UK, rare
  • /bɚˈlɪn/ US
  • /ˈbɜː.lɪn/ UK
  • /ˈbɝ.lɪn/ US

Rhymes with -ɪn, -ɜː(ɹ)lɪn

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German Berlin.

proper noun Berlins

  1. countable, uncountable The capital and largest city of Germany. Ironically enough, it was the anti-war stirrings of Dada that bore out its most immediate influence, first in Switzerland and then post-war Berlin.
  2. countable, metonymically, uncountable The German government. The practical implication of this decision in the world of 1948 is clear: The United States would indeed support the veterans of the Vlasov Army, the eastern SS collaborators, and other groups that had permitted themselves to become pawns of Berlin during the war.
  3. countable, uncountable A state of Germany containing the capital city.
  4. countable, uncountable A surname from German. The family tree boasts an astonishing array of celebrated historical figures from the prophet Isaiah to Sir Isaiah Berlin, from Felix Mendelssohn to Karl Marx and Moses Montefiore. The list also includes Yehudi Menuhin, Helena Rubinstein, the Rothschilds and even Rosenstein himself.
  5. countable, uncountable A female given name from German.
  6. countable, uncountable A civil parish of the municipality of Seedorf, Segeberg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
  7. countable, uncountable The former name of Kitchener, a city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
  8. countable, uncountable A village in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.
  9. countable, uncountable A small town in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
  10. countable, uncountable The former name of Genevra, an unincorporated community in Colusa County, California.
  11. countable, uncountable A town in Hartford County, Connecticut.
  12. countable, uncountable A small city in Colquitt County, Georgia.
  13. countable, uncountable A village in Sangamon County, Illinois.
  14. countable, uncountable A ghost town in Johnson Township, Clinton County, Indiana.
  15. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Bourbon County, Kansas.
  16. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Bracken County, Kentucky.
  17. countable, uncountable A town in Worcester County, Maryland.
  18. countable, uncountable A town in Worcester County, Massachusetts.
  19. countable, uncountable The former name of Marne, an unincorporated community in Ottawa County, Michigan.
  20. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Gentry County, Missouri.
  21. countable, uncountable The former name of Otoe, a village in Otoe County, Nebraska.
  22. countable, uncountable A ghost town in Nye County, Nevada.
  23. countable, uncountable A city in Coos County, New Hampshire.
  24. countable, uncountable A borough and township in Camden County, New Jersey.
  25. countable, uncountable A town in Rensselaer County, New York.
  26. countable, uncountable A tiny city in LaMoure County, North Dakota.
  27. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Berlin Township, Holmes County, Ohio.
  28. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Florence Township, Williams County, Ohio.
  29. countable, uncountable A borough of Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
  30. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Tennessee.
  31. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Washington County, Texas.
  32. countable, uncountable A town in Washington County, Vermont.
  33. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia.
  34. countable, uncountable A city in Green Lake County and Waushara County, Wisconsin.
  35. countable, uncountable A town in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, mostly surrounding the city of the same name.
  36. countable, uncountable A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
  37. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of Berlin Township.Berlin Township

noun Berlins

  1. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Short for Berlin worsted Are you not aware that the single worsted that Berlin is made of, is very different from that that is made into stockings?

berlin²

  • [bɚˈlɪn] US
  • /bəˈlɪn/ UK

Where it comes from

From the name of the German capital city Berlin, where it was invented in the 17th century.

noun berlins · berline

  1. A four-wheeled carriage with a separate sheltered seat behind the body. I was then giving some instructions about the forwarding my trunk, and was just going to mount my new purchase in the yard of the inn; when a berlin, apparently belonging to a foreigner of distinction, attended by three French or Swiss servants, drove to the door […].

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