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autobahn
The Collaborative International Dictionary
autobahn \autobahn\ n. [German: equivalent of auto + road.] an expressway or superhighway in a German-speaking country.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1937, German, from auto "motor car, automobile" + bahn "path, road," from Middle High German ban, bane "way, road," literally "strike" (as a swath cut through), from PIE *gwhen- "to strike, kill" (see bane).
Wiktionary
n. The high-speed intercity highways of Germany.
WordNet
n. an expressway in a German-speaking country
Wikipedia
Autobahn is the fourth studio album by German electronic band Kraftwerk, released in November 1974. The 22-minute title track " Autobahn" was edited to 3:27 for single release and reached number 25 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, number 30 in the Australian chart, and performed even higher around Europe, reaching number 11 in the UK and number 12 in the Netherlands. This commercial success came after the band had released three experimental and purely instrumental albums.
The Autobahn (, plural ) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official German term is (plural , abbreviated BAB), which translates as "federal motorway". The literal meaning of the word Bundesautobahn is "Federal Auto(mobile) Track".
German autobahns have no federally mandated speed limit for some classes of vehicles. However limits are posted (and enforced) in areas that are urbanized, substandard, accident-prone, or under construction. On speed-unrestricted stretches, an advisory speed limit () of applies. A 2008 estimate reported that 52% of the autobahn network had only the advisory speed limit, 15% had temporary speed limits due to weather or traffic conditions, and 33% had permanent speed limits. Measurements from the German State of Brandenburg in 2006 showed average speeds of on a 6-lane section of autobahn in free-flowing conditions.
Germany's autobahn network has a total length of about in 2015, which ranks it among the most dense and longest systems in the world. Longer systems can be found in China , the United States , and Spain .
"Autobahn" is a song by German electronic band Kraftwerk, composed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider of the band, with Emil Schult collaborating on the lyrics. It is co-produced by Conny Plank, and was the band's first track to use sung lyrics. Recorded in 1974, the song is designed to capture the feel of driving on a motorway.
Autobahn is German for motorway or highway and may refer to:
Transportation highways:
- Autobahn, the high-speed intercity highways of Germany
- Autobahns of Austria
- Motorways of Switzerland
Other:
- Autobahn Country Club, road racing complex
- Autobahn (album), 1974 Kraftwerk album
- Autobahn (film), an upcoming film
- "Autobahn" (song), by Kraftwerk
- Autobahn (play), a play by Neil LaBute
Autobahn is a play written by Neil LaBute in 2003. It consists of seven short vignettes—each one involving just two people, and each one taking place entirely in the front seat of a car.
Usage examples of "autobahn".
The first snows had started, whistling in off the North Sea, slicing in flurries across the wide stretches of the autobahn as it swept south of Bremen and into the flat plain of Lower Saxony.
Despite the wind and the descending darkness, he enjoyed driving down the autobahn in bad weather.
When the autobahn went into an overpass he could look down to the right and see it stretching away into the December night, thousands of hectares of lights and mills, aglow from a thousand furnaces churning out the wealth of the economic miracle.
Here he followed the branchoff to the right from autobahn E4 to E8 and the border with East Germany.
To the right and left of the autobahn a drive cut into the pine forests, and two soldiers in winter clothing, each with a battery-powered illuminated baton, stood at the entrance to each, waiting to summon something hidden in the forests across the road.
Motti kept the blindfold on him until they were well clear of Munich and heading north up autobahn E 6 toward Nuremberg and Bayreuth.
There was no autobahn between Nuremberg and Stuttgart in those days, and on a bright sunny day the road leading across the lush plain of Franconia and into the wooded hills and valleys of WUrttemberg would have been picturesque.
It was almost four in the morning when he climbed into the Jaguar, and half past the hour before he had made his way back to the autobahn leading north for Heilbronn and Mannheim.
It had started to rain, an evil sleet running in curtains across the slippery autobahn, and the mesmeric effect of the windshield wipers almost sent him to sleep.
As it tore down the autobahn toward Frankfurt, the bumping caused the heavy springs above the front wheels to retract slightly, crushing the small bulb between the jaws of the bomb trigger to fragments of glass.
The Odessa chief was brusque and irritable, for it was long past the time he should have heard on the news of a sports car being blown to pieces, apparently by an exploding gas tank, on the autobahn south of OsnabrUck.
Although he and the Old Man had been friends before he killed himself on the autobahn, there had never been an invitation to the house for Netty.
A66 Autobahn to Schultheim, where it turned into Highway 40, and continued on that until he came to the A7 Autobahn to Fulda.
March Walvis stirred restlessly inside the rear of the stretch Mercedes which was speeding along the autobahn carrying them to the castle in the mountains whose jagged peaks loomed ahead.
By mischance he had come out on to the autobahn, returning to Munich, from the wrong exit.