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PRONUNCIATION OF CHERBOURG

Cherbourg  [ˈʃɛəbʊəɡ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHERBOURG

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cherbourg is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CHERBOURG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cherbourg

Cherbourg-Octeville

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes only counted once. Cherbourg-Octeville is a city and commune, situated on the Cotentin peninsula in the Manche department of Lower Normandy in north-western France. It is a subprefecture of its department, and was officially formed when the commune of Cherbourg absorbed Octeville on 28 February 2000. Due to its union, it is the most populated city in its department and the second-most in the region after the prefecture, Caen. Cherbourg holds an arsenal of the French Navy. It is also a ferryport, with lines to the English ports of Poole and Portsmouth, the Irish port of Rosslare Harbour and St Helier on Jersey.

Definition of Cherbourg in the English dictionary

The definition of Cherbourg in the dictionary is a port in NW France, on the English Channel. Pop: 25 370.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CHERBOURG


bourg
bʊəɡ
Coorg
kʊəɡ
faubourg
ˈfəʊbʊəɡ
Roeg
ˈrəʊəɡ
simurg
sɪˈmʊəɡ
simurgh
sɪˈmʊəɡ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHERBOURG

Cher
cheralite
Cheremis
Cheremiss
Cherenkov
Cherenkov radiation
Cheribon
cherimoya
cherimoyer
cherish
cherishable
cherished
cherisher
cherishingly
cherishment
Chernenko
Chernigov
Chernobyl
Chernovtsy

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHERBOURG

Augsburg
Brandenburg
burg
Duisburg
Freiburg
Fribourg
Hamburg
homburg
Johannesburg
Limbourg
Limburg
Louisbourg
Luluabourg
Luxembourg
Luxemburg
Mecklenburg
Petersburg
Salzburg
Strasbourg
Tilburg

Synonyms and antonyms of Cherbourg in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Cherbourg» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CHERBOURG

Find out the translation of Cherbourg to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Cherbourg from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Cherbourg» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

瑟堡
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Cherbourg
570 millions of speakers

English

Cherbourg
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चेरबर्ग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شيربورغ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Шербур
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Cherbourg
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Cherbourg
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Cherbourg
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cherbourg
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Cherbourg
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

シェルブール
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

쉘부르
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cherbourg
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Cherbourg
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

செர்போர்க்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चेरबॉर्ग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Cherbourg
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Cherbourg
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Cherbourg
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Шербур
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Cherbourg
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Cherbourg
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Cherbourg
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Cherbourg
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Cherbourg
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Cherbourg

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHERBOURG»

The term «Cherbourg» is quite widely used and occupies the 34.220 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of Cherbourg
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «Cherbourg».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CHERBOURG» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Cherbourg» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Cherbourg» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Cherbourg

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHERBOURG»

Discover the use of Cherbourg in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Cherbourg and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Boats of Cherbourg
The story of the revolutionary missile boat used by Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
Abraham Rabinovich, 1988
2
A Dumping Ground: A History of the Cherbourg Settlement
A Dumping Ground illustrates an Aboriginal reserve's evolution under government practise, and explores the dynamics of cultural resilience through the generations.
Thom Blake, 2001
3
CSS Alabama Vs USS Kearsarge: Cherbourg 1864
Her illustrious career saw the capture of 60 merchant ships and two duels with ships of the US Navy. This book gives the complete story of the development of the Confederacy's commerce raiding force and the ships the Union set against them.
Mark Lardas, 2011
4
A Lady's Drive from Florence to Cherbourg; Or, Santo, Lucia, ...
Where They Stayed, and what They Paid Ella Hunter. were a terrible sight. She rubbed her dear little head against me as if trying to comfort me. A civil farmer came up at the time and advised me to do nothing till we got to the hotel, which was ...
Ella Hunter, 1883
5
Journey of Charles the tenth, from Saint-Cloud to Cherbourg, ...
Joseph Jacques Naylies (viscomte de.), Charles X (king of France.) wards all their trunks were hastily put on board. f At a quarter past 2 o'clock the captains of these vessels, made the air resound, by giving their orders, the sails were unfurled ...
Joseph Jacques Naylies (viscomte de.), Charles X (king of France.), 1830
6
Photography’s Other Histories
Photographic collections like Betty McKenzie's are extremely important historical documents, particularly because so few Aboriginal people at Cherbourg in the 1920s and 1930s would have owned cameras. As a result, their families today do  ...
Christopher Pinney, Nicolas Peterson, 2003
7
Catalogue of Scientific Papers (1800-1900): ser. 2 , 1864-1873
329-338. Jonan, Henri. 14. Remarques météorologiques et nautiques, faites pendant un voyage de France à la Nouvelle-Calédonie, et dans la partie sud- ouest de l'Océan Pacifique. Cherbourg, Mém. Soc. Sei. Nat. X., 1864, pp. 225- 272. 15.
Henry White, Herbert McLeod, Henry Forster Morley, 1879
8
Brassey's Annual
Toulon 1904 117-6 12-S 8-3 172 200 10-6 20 Cherbourg . . 1901 118 9-2 146 250 8 13 9 Alose Toulon 1903 77 T-6 8-8 68 60 8 S Toulon 1903 ; 77 76 8-8 68 60 8 i Toulon 1903 77 7-6 8-0 68 60 8 t Toulon 1907 154-3 344 Castor Rocbefort .
Thomas Allnutt Brassey Brassey (2d earl), Thomas Brassey Brassey (Earl), 1911
9
Navies and Global Defense: Theories and Strategy
STUDIES IN DETERRENCE Although this chapter has so far largely concentrated on British naval offensive planning against Cherbourg, France was not the only state that was vulnerable to the application of the "Cherbourg strategy.
Keith Neilson, Elizabeth Jane Errington, 1995
10
Cherbourg Dorm Girls
Features vignettes of 12 Aboriginal women who grew up in the dormitories of the Cherbourg Mission near Murgon.
Jeannie Mok, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHERBOURG»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Cherbourg is used in the context of the following news items.
1
D-Day hero dies aged 95: First Briton parachuted into France ahead …
His team landed on the Cherbourg peninsula with hundreds of dummy parachutists. Their job was to distract German troops with amplifiers ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Bouygues fined for hiring undeclared workers at French nuclear plant
CHERBOURG, France, July 7 (Reuters) - A French court on Tuesday fined Bouygues Travaux Publics (TP), part of French construction group ... «Reuters Africa, Jul 15»
3
Irish Ferries marks 20 years of sailing between Rosslare and Roscoff
Inaugurated in summer 1995, it was introduced to compliment the company's then-established services to Normandy, via Cherbourg and Le ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
4
Patriotic spirit shows in war recruitment drives
... according to a statement made today following a report that four men from the Cherbourg Aboriginal settlement had been refused enlistment. «Sunraysia Daily, Jul 15»
5
Defor and Ralph sniff out an €185,0000 drugs haul
... Defor and Ralph assisted officers during the search of a Lithuanian-registered van which had disembarked a ferry from Cherbourg, France. «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
6
New photographic exhibition to capture surprising connections
... a basket from Stradbroke Island, a shield from the rainforest, and photographs of family members from Cherbourg and beyond, we are better ... «My Sunshine Coast, Jul 15»
7
History resounds in Clifton chautauqua
... a Cincinnati native who boarded the infamous ship in Cherbourg in 1912 and became one of the 710 survivors of the sinking disaster. «Yellow Springs News, Jul 15»
8
An ode to Democracy in America
... the Château de Tocqueville still stands, within sight of the harbour of Cherbourg – was soon to change his mind about democracy. Sometime ... «MercatorNet, Jul 15»
9
Unusual cruises from Canadian archipelagos or sharing drinks with …
The round-trip cruise from Southampton calls at Zeebrugge and Cherbourg and costs from £550pp with Cruiseco (cruising.co.uk, 01926 ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
10
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (2015)
This was the world premiere of a symphonic concert version of the Jacques Demy film, presented live at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris (and ... «Audiophile Audition, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Cherbourg [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cherbourg>. Apr 2024 ».
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