Mecklenburg
Mecklenburg proper noun: a historical region in Baltic northern Germany; part of the modern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Proper noun
Mecklenburg (countable and uncountable, plural Mecklenburgs)
- A historical region in Baltic northern Germany; part of the modern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
- Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany... the provinces of Lower Germany towards the north conſiſt of the Low Country of the Rhine, Triers, Cologn, Mentz, Weſtphalia, Heſſe, Brunſwic, Miſnia, Luſatia, High Saxony upon the Elbe, Low Saxony upon the Elbe...1759, George Sale et al., “The Modern Part of an Universal History”, in History of the German Empire, volume XXIX, page 2
- Men like Fritz Reuter (employing the Mecklenburg dialect) and Klaus Groth (employing the Holstein dialect) have tried to raise it [= New-Low-German, or Plattdeutsch] to a written language.1886, H. A. Strong, Kuno Meyer, Outlines of a history of the German language, p. 67f. (https://books.google.com/books?id=OhJKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA68)
- A surname from German.
Forms of Mecklenburg
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Origin of Mecklenburg
From German Mecklenburg.
Words formed from Mecklenburg
Questions about Mecklenburg
- What does Mecklenburg mean?
- Mecklenburg means a historical region in Baltic northern Germany; part of the modern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
- What part of speech is Mecklenburg?
- Mecklenburg is a proper noun.
Words near Mecklenburg in the dictionary
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