berlin
Speech parts
1. berlin - Noun
2. Berlin - Proper noun
Meaning
A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.
Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool.
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Examples
It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.
Berlin is the testicle of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.
The fall of Wall Street is for market fundamentalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was for communism.
I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives.