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Leipzig

Leipzig

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A city in eastern Germany that has a long history of trade fairs, music and book publishing
  • proper noun
  • /ˈlaɪpˌzɪk/
: Leipzig
  • As they probably do in Leipzig.
  • Leipzig, Germany
  • Leipzig University
  • museums in Leipzig

And the big cities there are Dresden and Leipzig and Weimar, which was the city of Goethe and Schiller.

Examples

  • 4 September 1989: Twelve hundred people demonstrate in Leipzig during the city's fall trade fair.

    Academic text (1990)

  • One study shows that forty-two Monday demonstrations took place in Leipzig during the period 1989-91.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Do you know anyone from Leipzig?

    Bridge of Spies (2015)

  • I might end up teaching in Leipzig.

    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

  • She said she lived in Leipzig.

    Hanna (2011)

  • Prior to that, he was the music director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, Germany.

    Academic text (1998)

  • A youth group from a congregation in Leipzig first decided to hold these peace prayers regularly on Monday evenings.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Two years later, he moved to Leipzig, Germany, to work with Werner Heisenberg.

    Academic text (2001)

  • The Nikolaikirche has served Protestant worship since 1539, when the Reformation came to Leipzig.

    Academic text (1996)

  • You know very well that I was a junior professor at the Leipzig University History Department.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Leipzig comes from an old Slavic name Lipsk, which comes from lipa meaning 'linden tree', a common European tree often called a lime tree. So Leipzig originally meant 'place of linden trees', and the city's name still points to its natural setting.