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Definitions

Proper Noun

1. 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. 2
   A department of Grand Est, France. Capital: Châlons-en-Champagne (INSEE code 51).
3. 3
   A city in Iowa.
4. 4
   A census-designated place in Ohio.
5. 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.

Related phrases

battle of marnechampagne ardenneschleswig holstein

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