Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region along the Rhine River in western Germany. It includes noted vineyards and highly industrial sections north of Bonn and Cologne.
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- proper noun general name for the land on both sides of the river
Rhine in the west ofGermany
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- noun a picturesque region of Germany around the Rhine river
Etymologies
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Examples
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Wasn't its success associated with something called "Rhineland capitalism" or "the social market"?
A Letter to America Daniel Hannan 2011
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The forty-eight hours after the march into the Rhineland were the most nerve-racking in my life.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Stalin’s Bust at the D-Day Memorial 2009
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Hitler himself said: The forty-eight hours after the march into the Rhineland were the most nerve-racking in my life.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Its largest owner, state-owned development bank KfW, subsequently assumed the €8.1 billion liquidity obligation, and also created together with other German banks a risk shield of €3.5 billion to cover possible losses on subprime paper held at the investment vehicle, called Rhineland Funding.
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Hitler himself said: The forty-eight hours after the march into the Rhineland were the most nerve-racking in my life.
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The idea that the German army seriously intended to defend the Rhineland by permitting the French to take over most of it without a struggle and put up inferior resistance east of the Rhine as a way of defending the Rhineland is a pipe dream.
Rhineland Knox, MacGregor 1984
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Hitler's march into the Rhineland was a daring move.
The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler Shirer, William L 1961
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The Rhineland was a strategic probe of allied will.
StrategyPage.com 2010
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What Draper does not realize is that the "Rhineland" at issue in 1936 was that basic fact of interwar geography, the demilitarized Rhineland zone (articles 42 and 43 of the Versailles Treaty) that included a fifty-kilometer-deep demilitarized strip on the east bank of the Rhine.
Rhineland Knox, MacGregor 1984
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Cologne, and the fire insurance company "Rhineland" at Neuss.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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