Wien en · PROPN
Etymology
From German Wien (“Vienna”); a habitational surname for the city. Doublet of Vienna.
Meanings
- A surname from German.
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Vienna: the capital and largest city of Austria.
alt of Vienna
Liebscher & Hübel and Neudorfer Griensteidl Hahnkamper & Stapf have until recently worked in co-operation but Dr Christoph Liebscher’s move to Wien to open an office has emphasised the incompatibility of two Kanzleien from the same city forming a close partnership.
1997, The European Legal 500, 7th edition, London: Legalease, →ISBN, page 19, column 2:The growth of Wien’s population during the first twelve months of the Nazi régime was due neither to biological reasons nor to immigration, but was caused by an extension of the administrative territory of the city.
1945, Austrian Basic Handbook, [London]: [Foreign Office], →OCLC, page 11, column 2:The city of Wien in Austria (also known as Vienna) is an instance of Smart City.
2017, Norman Flynn, Alberto Asquer, “Open Data, Open Government and Smart Cities”, in Public Sector Management, 7th edition, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 99:
Deriveds
Wien bridge · Wien approximation · Maxwell-Wien bridge · Wien effect