Definition of Berliner

1. Noun. An inhabitant of Berlin.

Group relationships: Berlin, German Capital
Generic synonyms: German
Specialized synonyms: West Berliner
Derivative terms: Berlin

Definition of Berliner

1. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Berlin ¹

2. Noun. A doughnut with a sweet filling ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Berliner

Berks
Berkshire
Berkshire Hills
Berkshires
Berlage
Berlepsch's tinamou
Berlepsch's tinamous
Berlin
Berlin's oedema
Berlin Wall
Berlin airlift
Berlin blue
Berlin doughnut
Berlin green
Berlin greens
Berliner
Berliners
Berlinese
Berlioz
Berlitz
Berlusconi
Berlusconian
Bermuda
Bermuda-shorts
Bermuda Triangle
Bermuda cedar
Bermuda chub
Bermuda dollar

Literary usage of Berliner

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1908)
"April 25—"Louis Pasteur," Dr. Harold C. Ernst. THE SARAH berliner RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP FOR ... The donor of this fund is Mr. Emile berliner, of Washington, ..."

2. Our Foreign-born Citizens: What They Have Done for America by Annie E. S. Beard (1922)
"The first important improvement upon Bell's invention was made by a young foreigner, Emile berliner, a German born in Hanover in 1851. ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Harnack suggests a more plausible theory (Sitzungsberichte der berliner Akademie, 1904, I, 906^916). In the document, he holds, from which the compiler of ..."

4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"latitude (which may be taken from tables found in many astronomical works—in Loomis's " Practical Astronomy," for instance, or in the berliner ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"Preger has made this sure in his edition of the manuscript extant at Munich in Abhandlungen der berliner Akademie, xiv. 2 (1879), 183 sqq. ..."

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