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Münchner en · NOUN

Etymology

From German Münchner.

Meanings

1. A native or inhabitant of the city of Munich, capital of Bavaria, Germany.
   • There followed a great commotion and uprising, the Münchners saying that their beer was absolutely necessary to them and that nothing dare be done to make it more difficult of attainment. 1929, World Traveler, volume 21, page 60:
   • […] a thousand heathenish Münchners who drank up five thousand bottles of wine. 1928, The Century Monthly Magazine, volume 116, page 603:
   • I have worked in Munich as a reporter for an international news service, covering a horrible plane crash that also incinerated a streetcar full of Münchners. 2005, William Bridges, Five-Mountain Morning, Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 12:
   • […] especially in regard to hotels and eating-houses, to which Münchners without families resorted for their meals. 1916, Daily Review of the Foreign Press, page 14:
   • “Zu streng” was the comment of the Münchners, and doubly strenuous it was for an American boy, quite ignorant of German, and held, from the moment of his entrance, responsible for obeying all the elaborate regulations of the school. 1922, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany, volume III, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, page 422:
   • The Starkbierzeit is celebrated by most Munich beer halls. Münchners refer to it as the city's "fifth season." 2005, Larry Hawthorne, The Beer Drinker's Guide to Munich, 5th edition, Freizeit Publishers, →ISBN, page 209:
   • Whenever in Munich you admire the way the Münchners decorate their houses and lampstands with flower boxes, think kindly and proudly of Count Rumford. 1933, House & Garden, volume 64, page 25:
   • They rolled dice between “Münchners” keeping score on the back of a cardboard “Brauerei Hameln” coaster. 1931, Henry Albert Phillips, Meet the Germans: In Which an American Sees the New Germany Through Its People, Robert M[edill] McBride & Company, page 174:
   • Augustiner Beer Garden, a true under-the-leaves beer garden packed with Münchners, is a delight. In fact, most Münchners consider Augustiner the best beer garden in town—which may be why it has 5,000 seats. 2016, Rick Steves, Best of Germany, Avalon Travel, Perseus Books, →ISBN:
   • THE PRACTICAL MÜNCHNERS AT THE OCTOBER FESTIVAL 1936, German Art from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century, Schurz, Carl, National Association, page 228:

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Synonyms

Munichite