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Definition: Tannenberg |
TannenbergNoun1. A battle in World War I (1914); decisive German victory over the Russians. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: TannenbergSynonym: battle of Tannenberg (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Tannenberg is the German name for the formerly East Prussian, now Polish, village of Stębark. It is still widely known by its German name due to two famous battles fought in its vicinity, in Battle of Tannenberg (1410) and 1914.
The city has been part of Poland since 1945.
External Links
The official website of the city of Olsztynek/Tannenberg: http://olsztynek.com.pl/
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tannenberg."
Crosswords: Tannenberg |
| English words defined with "Tannenberg": battle of Tannenberg. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Tannenberg (1932) | |
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Economic History | Lithuania | Led by Jogaila and Vytautas, the united Polish-Lithuanian army defeated the Teutonic Order in the Battle of Tannenberg (Gruenwald or Zalgiras) in 1410, terminating the medieval Germanic drive eastward. (references) |
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| "Tannenberg" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tannenberg" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
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Expression using "Tannenberg": battle of Tannenberg. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tannenberg | 12 |
battle tannenberg | 10 |
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| Language | Translations for "tannenberg"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | annenbergtay.(various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-g-n-n-n-r-t" | |
-2 letters: banneret. | |
-3 letters: banteng, grantee, greaten, negater, reagent, rebegan, regnant. | |
-4 letters: argent, banger, banner, bannet, banter, barege, bargee, beaten, beater, bennet, berate, enrage, entera, ergate, gannet, garnet, genera, gerent, graben, neaten, neater, negate, rebate, regent, rennet, tanner, tenner. | |
-5 letters: agene, agent, agree, anent, anger, antre, arete, barge, began, begat, beget, benne, beret, brant, brent, eager, eagre, eaten, eater, egret, enate, enter, genet, genre, grant, grate, great, grebe, green, greet, ragee, ranee, range, regna, rente, retag, taber, targe, tenge, terga, terne, treen. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101110 01101110 01100101 01101110 01100010 01100101 01110010 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a n n e n b e r g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 006E 006E 0065 006E 0062 0065 0072 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54678080718068718473 |
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