Synonyms:
Hamburg
Meaning: a port city in northern Germany on the Elbe River that was founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century and is today the largest port in Germany; in 1241 it formed an alliance with Lubeck that became the basis for the Hanseatic League
Usage examples
The two following months they spent together at Hamburg.
Klopstock first beheld Meta Moeller in passing through Hamburg in April 1751.
'Sir, his highness has graciously ordered a Danish soup and red Hamburg dumplings.'
The place to resist the Professor would have been Hamburg, not the foot of Snaefell.
But I had no hopes ever to see him, when quite unexpectedly I heard that he should pass through Hamburg.
I wrote immediately to the same friend, for procuring, by his means, that I might see the author of the 'Messiah' when in Hamburg.
He told him that a certain girl in Hamburg wished to see him, and for all recommendation showed him some letters in which I made bold to criticise Klopstock's verses.