Bismarck
- proper noun
- /ˈbɪzmɑrk/
- The capital city of North Dakota, Bismarck, serves as a hub for state government activities.
- Bismarck, ND
Examples
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High today in Bismarck, North Dakota, 6 below zero, high temp, 20.
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"I'm seeing more and more cases where the lawyer on the other side is from Fargo, Billings, or Bismarck."
Academic text (2001) -
You know, I heard Bismarck is quite lovely this time of year.
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'Cause I ran away from that school in Bismarck.
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It's all the way in Bismarck.
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I'm gonna go back to Bismarck where I belong.
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Mom and Dad stayed in their same little house in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Fiction book (1995) -
And then my husband Dirk wanted a faster life so we moved to Bismarck, North Dakota.
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Martin's widowed mother worked as a phone operator in Bismarck.
Fiction book (1994) -
Bismarck, N.D. -- The North Dakota Board of Higher Education has named John Miller president at Williston State University.
Academic text (2017)
Compounds
A sea fight in March 1943 in which Allied bombers destroy a group of Japanese ships in the Bismarck Sea
A group of islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean northeast of New Guinea that are part of Papua New Guinea
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bismarck was named for the German leader Otto von Bismarck in the 19th century, because American towns were often given the names of famous people. That's why the capital city in North Dakota shares his name and reminds people of him.