Associations to the word «Weimar»

Wiktionary

WEIMAR, proper noun. A city in Germany located in the Bundesland of Thuringia (German: Thüringen), north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig.
WEIMAR, proper noun. The period in German history from 1919 to 1933, when the nation was under a constitution drafted in the city of Weimar.
WEIMAR REPUBLIC, proper noun. (history) The democratic regime of Germany from 1919 to the assumption of power by Adolf Hitler in 1933.

Dictionary definition

WEIMAR, noun. A German city near Leipzig; scene of the adoption in 1919 of the constitution of the Weimar Republic that lasted until 1933.

Wise words

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