Rostock

[ ros-tok; German raws-tawk ]

/ ˈrɒs tɒk; German ˈrɔs tɔk /

noun

a seaport in N Germany, on the Baltic.

Example sentences from the Web for rostock

Grotius set out in an open waggon for Lubeck, and arrived at Rostock on the 26th of August very ill.

The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius |Jean Lvesque de Burigny
When he was about eighteen he went to the university of Copenhagen and afterwards studied at Rostock and Wittenberg.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 |Various
The harbour of Rostock was blocked up by a line of sunken ships.

The Thirty Years' War |Samuel Rawson Gardiner
In lieu of the sums due, he offered him a professorship at Rostock, which Kepler declined.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 7 |Various

He died in 1645 at Rostock in Germany on his way home from Sweden, whither he had gone to tender his resignation.

International Law. A Treatise. Volume I (of 2) |Lassa Francis Oppenheim

British Dictionary definitions for rostock

Rostock

/ (ˈrɒstɒk) /

noun

a port in NE Germany, in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania on the Warnow estuary 13 km (8 miles) from the Baltic and its outport, Warnemünde: the chief port of the former East Germany; university (1419). Pop: 198 303 (2003 est)

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