Marne
/mɑɹn/ name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A right tributary of the Seine, in eastern France, flowing 319 miles east and southeast of Paris through the departments of Haute-Marne, Marne, Aisne, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne.
- 2 A department of Grand Est, France. Capital: Châlons-en-Champagne (INSEE code 51).
- 3 A city in Iowa.
- 4 A census-designated place in Ohio.
- 5 A town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Etymology
From French Marne; in the sense of the German town and the place in Iowa named after it, from German Marne.