Neckar
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- proper noun
- And yet not even 365 days remain before U.S. Army Europe command packs up and leaves its picturesque Heidelberg home, with its castle on the hill and riverboats on the Neckar, a city unbombed by the Allies and now a prime destination for tourists from Tokyo.
- Neckar River
Examples
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The Mennonite dialect was not all that different from his own childhood lingo in the Rhine-Neckar region.
Fiction book (2002) -
The Neckar River flows gently through Heidelberg, offering beautiful views of the surrounding hills.
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This paid enough to support Jean and me in a room overlooking the Neckar River.
Fiction book (1995) -
The Neckar, for instance.
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Further, it promised an excursion to Rottenburg on the Neckar, the location of the martyrdom of **29;262;TOOLONG
Academic text (2006) -
Rotterdam's Flea Market and its German sister, Frankfurt am Main's Flea Market, stretch from Frankfurt over a bridge that spans the Main-Neckar River to Sachsenhausen.
Blog text (22) -
Many tourists enjoy boating on the Neckar River when they visit southwestern Germany.
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During our trip, we stopped to take pictures of the picturesque bridges over the Neckar River.
Synonyms
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A river in southwest Germany that starts in the Black Forest and flows into the Rhine
Compounds
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A river in southwest Germany that starts in the Black Forest and flows into the Rhine
Surface Forms
Etymology
The name Neckar comes from very old European words for rivers and was recorded by the Romans as Nicer. That old root meant 'river' or 'wild water', so the name fits the river that flows through southwestern Germany today.