Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river of central and northern Switzerland rising in the Bernese Alps and flowing about 295 km (185 mi) to join the Rhine River at the Swiss-German border.
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- proper noun Alternative form of
Aar .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine
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Examples
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But the capital of Switzerland is Bern, a beautiful city of about 130,000 nestled along the banks of the River Aare near the center of the country.
Fallout Catherine Collins 2011
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An unmarked police car was at the airport to take Edwards and Yonemura the sixty miles to Bern, where Lehmann was waiting for them in his office overlooking the River Aare.
Fallout Catherine Collins 2011
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But the capital of Switzerland is Bern, a beautiful city of about 130,000 nestled along the banks of the River Aare near the center of the country.
Fallout Catherine Collins 2011
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An unmarked police car was at the airport to take Edwards and Yonemura the sixty miles to Bern, where Lehmann was waiting for them in his office overlooking the River Aare.
Fallout Catherine Collins 2011
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The River Aare, has crystal-clear water coming straight down from the Alps, making it cooler than a lake, but infinitely more fun.
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The representations of the two universal statements, ˜All Aare B™ and ˜No A is B,™ illustrate this strength of the system.
Diagrams Shin, Sun-Joo 2008
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As he drove beside the River Aare into the Swiss capital, Arthur remembered the city from a visit several years earlier.
Day of the Dandelion Peter Pringle 2007
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The proglacial area of the Unteraargletscher is divided into three terrace levels: 0.5–1 m (level I), 1– 2 m (level II), or .2 m (level III) above the main Aare meltwater stream.
Thoughts on Alpine Glacier Stratigraphy « Climate Audit 2006
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She crossed back and forth across the Aare River several times and chose small out-of-the-way streets where it would be obvious if someone was behind them.
The Lions of Lucerne Brad Thor 2002
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While they spoke, he surreptitiously dropped it into the Aare River.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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