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Bergen

Bergen

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A port city in southwestern Norway with a historic harbour near the fjords
  • proper noun
: Bergen
  • Roger has a house in Bergen County where he stays when he can't make it upstate.
  • Bergen, Norway
  • University of Bergen
  • a conference in Bergen

And the next video is probably going to be from Bergen with Pete.

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Examples

  • And they were both in Bergen when the murders started.

  • And Huey Lucas in Bergen County has a body shop.

  • And the next video is probably going to be from Bergen with Pete.

  • "In the office, her boss, the Bergen County prosecutor, led the congratulations."

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Meet me Monday morning on the first tee at Bergen," he said.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Based on the records in Ancestry.com, Johansen was born in Bergen, Norway in 1919.

    Academic text (2017)
  • A good number of books arrived from Dr. Bjorn Stlhane Andersen at Bergen University, Norway.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Brendon had been a detective with the Bergen County prosecutor's office seventeen years ago when four-year-old Laurie disappeared.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • I grew up in New Jersey, in Bergen County, and I went to school at what we called Tromaville High School, which was really Northern Valley Regional High School of Old Tappan, and Sarabel Levinson, Toxic's mom, was my teacher.

  • We visited Bergen, a beautiful port city in southwestern Norway, during our summer vacation.

Compounds

A place like a prison in northwest Germany where Nazis held and killed many Jewish people during World War II

Surface Forms

Bergen main

Etymology

Bergen comes from an old Norse name Bjørgvin, made of björg 'mountains' and vin 'meadow'. So the name means 'meadow among the mountains', which fits the city surrounded by high peaks and fjords.