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Copenhagen   /kˈoʊpənhˌeɪgən/  /kˈoʊpənhˌɑgən/   Listen
noun
Copenhagen  n.  
1.
A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.
2.
A children's game in which one player is inclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.


proper noun
Copenhagen  n.  (Geography) The capital city of Denmark. Population (2000) = 1,339,395.





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"Copenhagen" Quotes from Famous Books



... In 1898 Bang, of Copenhagen, one of the highest European authorities, in his paper presented to the Congress for the Study of Human and Animal Tuberculosis, ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture
... after establishing their sway in the Hebrides, the Orkneys, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland, they made England their own, first by the Jute and Anglo-Saxon tribes, then by the arms of Denmark, which was at that time so powerful that England actually became a colony of Copenhagen; and finally they thought of extending their conquests farther south to the Mediterranean Sea, where their ships rode at anchor in the harbors of ...
— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud
... barefoot the temple of Jupiter Ammon where the heat is excessive: one must be well shod to perform one's devotions in Copenhagen. ...
— Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary • Voltaire
... in the little town of Thisted in Jutland, on April 7, 1847. In 1868 he matriculated at the University of Copenhagen, where he displayed a remarkable talent for science, winning the gold medal of the university with a dissertation on Seaweeds. He definitely chose science as a career, and was among the first in Scandinavia to recognize the importance of Darwin. He translated the ...
— Mogens and Other Stories - Mogens; The Plague At Bergamo; There Should Have Been Roses; Mrs. Fonss • Jens Peter Jacobsen
... to have public worship in their own tongue and to secure German teachers for their children in the schools. Matters were already in a very strained state, when shortly before the death of King Frederick VII. of Denmark (November, 1863) the Rigsraad at Copenhagen sanctioned a constitution for Schleswig, which would practically have made it a part of the Danish monarchy. The King gave his assent to it, an act which his ...
— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose


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