Brandenburg

Alternative forms

• Brandenburgh (obsolete)

Etymology

• From German Brandenburg.
• (city in Kentucky): Named after Solomon Brandenburg, a land owner.

Proper noun

Brandenburg

1. A state in the northeast of Germany.
2. Brandenburg an der Havel, a German town.
3. (historical) The lands of Brandenburg (Mark Brandenburg, Provinz Brandenburg), provinces of Prussia from 1815 to 1946.
   • 1759, George Sale et al., “The Modern Part of an Universal History”, in History of the German Empire, volume XXIX, page 2:

     Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany... the provinces of Lower Germany towards the north conſiſt of the Low Country of the Rhine, Triers, Cologn, Mentz, Weſtphalia, Heſſe, Brunſwic, Miſnia, Luſatia, High Saxony upon the Elbe, Low Saxony upon the Elbe, Mecklenburg, Lauenburg, Brandenburg, Magdeburg, and Pomerania.

4. A home rule city, the county seat of Meade County, Kentucky, United States.

Noun

Brandenburg (plural Brandenburgs)

1. A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe.
   • 1771, [Tobias Smollett], The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC:

     He wore a coat […] trimmed with Brandenburgs.

See also

• Wikipedia article on the state of Brandenburg
• Wikipedia article on the province of Brandenburg
• Wikipedia article on the town of Brandenburg an der Havel