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Biedermeier

Biedermeier proper noun: a period in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle class grew in number and the arts appealed to common sensibilities and a sense of parochialism, starting with the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and ending with the onset of the Revolutions of 1848.

Proper noun

Biedermeier

  1. (historical) A period in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle class grew in number and the arts appealed to common sensibilities and a sense of parochialism, starting with the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and ending with the onset of the Revolutions of 1848.
    • When Frederick died, there followed that time of which Germans themselves are ashamed—the hole-and-corner time, the time when the parochial spirit was abroad and no German burgher saw beyond the village church and the village pump; the Biedermeier time (that comic figure of the German Punch), the...1913, Stanley Shaw, William of Germany

Origin of Biedermeier

Borrowed from German Biedermeier.

Questions about Biedermeier

What does Biedermeier mean?
Biedermeier means a period in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle class grew in number and the arts appealed to common sensibilities and a sense of parochialism, starting with the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and ending with the onset of the Revolutions of 1848.
What part of speech is Biedermeier?
Biedermeier is a proper noun.

Words near Biedermeier in the dictionary

  1. Bieda
  2. Biederman
  3. Biedermann
  4. Biedermanns
  5. Biedermans
  6. Biedermeier
  7. Biedma
  8. Biedscheid
  9. Biedscheids
  10. Biefeld-Brown effect
  11. Biegala

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