Bremerhaven

English Proper noun en city and seaport in s/Bremen c/Germany. en 2020 Emily St. John Mandel The Glass Hotel Picador (2021) 254 A black car ferried them north under low grey skies, through the pretty red-brick districts of Bremerhaven proper to the place that everyone in the shipping industry was actually talking about when they said the name of that city: a massive terminal between the city and the sea, not quite in Germany but not quite anywhere else, one of those liminal spaces that have proliferated on this earth. Translations town in Lower Saxony Frisian: North Frisian: frr Bremerhuuwen Heligoland, frr Breemerhoawen Saterland Frisian: stq Bremerhoawen Low German: Dutch Low Saxon: nds-nl Bremershaawn German Low German: nds-de Bremerhoben en eponyms German de: Etymology From de Bremer of Bremen Hafen harbour. The Low German spelling de Haven was already archaic when the harbour was opened around 1830. It was probably chosen by analogy with de Cuxhaven. Compare de Wilhelmshaven (founded in 1869). Pronunciation de /bʁeːməʁˈhaːfən/ [ˌbʁeː.mɐˈhaː.fn̩] de De-Bremerhaven.ogg de De-Bremerhaven2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de Bre mer ha ven Proper noun toponym de city s/Bremen northwestern c/Germany Bremerhaven de Fischtown<q:nickname> Declension toponym Derived terms de Bremerhavener de Bremerhavenerin