Marne

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A right tributary of the Seine, in eastern France, flowing 319 miles east and southeast of Paris through the departments of Haute-Marne, Marne, Aisne, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne.
  2. A department of Grand Est, France. Capital: Châlons-en-Champagne (INSEE code 51).
  3. A city in Iowa.
  4. A census-designated place in Ohio.
  5. A town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Pronunciation

/mɑɹn/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Marne.wav

Word forms

Marne

Etymology

From French Marne; in the sense of the German town and the place in Iowa named after it, from German Marne.

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