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Gumbinnen

Gumbinnen proper noun: former name of Gusev.

Proper noun

Gumbinnen

  1. Former name of Gusev.
    • Even during the last three days, while orders of the day from Army Group HQ, together with the whole Russian press, were lauding the 1st Army’s victory at Gumbinnen, Samsanov’s corps, advancing from the south, had never felt that somewhere beyond the forests and the lakes they had the support of...1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 72

Questions about Gumbinnen

What does Gumbinnen mean?
Gumbinnen means former name of Gusev.
What part of speech is Gumbinnen?
Gumbinnen is a proper noun.

Words near Gumbinnen in the dictionary

  1. gumberoos
  2. Gumbert
  3. Gumberts
  4. gumbi gumbi
  5. gumbies
  6. Gumbinnen
  7. Gumble
  8. gumbo
  9. gumbo limbo
  10. gumbo limbos
  11. gumbo z'herbes

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