Brandenburg

Full definition of Brandenburg

Proper noun

1. (geography) Brandenburg an der Havel, a German town.
2. (geography) Land Brandenburg, a state of modern Germany.
3. (geography, historical) The lands of Brandenburg (Mark Brandenburg, Provinz Brandenburg), provinces of Prussia from 1815 to 1946.
• 1759, George Sale et al., The Modern Part of an Universal History, : History of the German Empire, page 2:Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany... the provinces of Lower Germany towards the north conÅ¿iÅ¿t of the Low Country of the Rhine, Triers, Cologn, Mentz, WeÅ¿tphalia, HeÅ¿Å¿e, BrunÅ¿wic, MiÅ¿nia, LuÅ¿atia, High Saxony upon the Elbe, Low Saxony upon the Elbe, Mecklenburg, Lauenburg, Brandenburg, Magdeburg, and Pomerania.

Noun

1. A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe.
• SmollettHe wore a coat ... trimmed with Brandenburgs.