Bremerhaven

English

Proper noun

Bremerhaven

1. A city and seaport in Bremen, Germany.
   • 2020, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel, Picador (2021), page 254:

     A black car […] ferried them north under low grey skies, through the pretty red-brick districts of Bremerhaven proper to the place that everyone in the shipping industry was actually talking about when they said the name of that city: a massive terminal between the city and the sea, not quite in Germany but not quite anywhere else, one of those liminal spaces that have proliferated on this earth.

German

Etymology

From Bremer (“of Bremen”) +‎ Hafen (“harbour”). The Low German spelling Haven was already archaic when the harbour was opened around 1830. It was probably chosen by analogy with Cuxhaven. Compare Wilhelmshaven (founded in 1869).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁeːməʁˈhaːfən/, [ˌbʁeː.mɐˈhaː.fn̩]

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Proper noun

Bremerhaven n (proper noun, genitive Bremerhavens or (optionally with an article) Bremerhaven)

1. Bremerhaven (a city in Bremen, northwestern Germany)

   Synonym: (nickname) Fischtown