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Mun·ster

[muhn-ster]
noun
1.
a province in SW Republic of Ireland. 9316 sq. mi. (24,130 sq. km).
2.
a town in NW Indiana.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Mün·ster

[myn-stuhr]
noun
a city in NW Germany: treaty of Westphalia 1648.
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münster (ˈmynstə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
a variant of muenster

Munster (ˈmʌnstə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
a province of SW Republic of Ireland: the largest of the four provinces and historically a kingdom; consists of the counties of Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, and Waterford. Capital: Cork. Pop: 1 100 614 (2002). Area: 24 125 sq km (9315 sq miles)

Münster (German ˈmynstər) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
a city in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia on the Dortmund-Ems Canal: one of the treaties comprising the Peace of Westphalia (1648) was signed here; became capital of Prussian Westphalia in 1815. Pop: 269 579 (2003 est)

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Munster
type of cheese; see Muenster.
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