Definition of Nurnberg

1. Noun. A city in southeastern Germany; site of Allied trials of Nazi war criminals (1945-46).

Exact synonyms: Nuremberg
Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center
Group relationships: Deutschland, Federal Republic Of Germany, Frg, Germany

Definition of Nurnberg

1. Proper noun. (alternative form of Nuremberg) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nurnberg

Nyquist frequency
Nyquist rate
Nyssa
Nyssa aquatica
Nyssa sylvatica
Nyssaceae
Nystan
Nysten's law
Nyunga
Nyungar
Nyx
Nzema
Nzima
Nîmes
Nørrebro
Nürnberg
O&S
O'
O'Beirne
O'Beirne's sphincter
O'Beirne's valve
O'Brien
O'Casey
O'Connor
O'Dare
O'Dwyer
O'Dwyer's tube
O'Flaherty
O'Hara

Literary usage of Nurnberg

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

1. The History of the Life of Albrecht Dürer of Nürnberg: With a Translation of by Charles Heaton (1870)
"Here in nurnberg he was only a prophet in his own country; but even here there were not wanting many noble and intellectual spirits who quite well knew how ..."

2. A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel (1919)
"... with a smile" (Ridendo castigat mores'); and it has no better exemplification in the literature of opera than Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von nurnberg ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1902)
"A further step in advance was made at the important Diet of nurnberg of 1491, where Maximilian declared that the Landfriede, already proclaimed for ten ..."

4. Sumptuary Law in Nürnberg: A Study in Paternal Government by Kent Roberts Greenfield (1918)
"At some time during the eleventh century the settlement that was to become the city of nurnberg began to cluster on the north bank of the Pegnitz River ..."

5. Beyond the Rhine: Memories of Art and Life in Germany Before the War by Marc Henry (1918)
"The Meistersinger of nurnbergnurnberg to-day—The Master- singer of Berlin—We give a ... HANS SACHS, mastersinger of nurnberg, was not without humour. ..."

6. Rambles Abroad by Olive A. Colton (1904)
"nurnberg HE who would see nurnberg in its early quaintness cannot afford to miss the next ship, for the past and present are having a contest here, ..."

7. An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell Through the Twelve Dominions by Fynes Moryson (1907)
"... and by Land to Augsburg, nurnberg and Stode (in Germany.) And of my passage over Sea into England. And of my journey through many severall Shires, ..."

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