Spree

Borrowed from German Spree.

• IPA^(key): /ʃpɹeɪ/, /spɹeɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophone: spray (one pronunciation)

Spree

1. A river in Germany that flows through Lusatia and into Berlin, where it flows into the Havel.

• prees, peers, Reeps, spere, esper, Prees, Peres, pères, Perse, speer, Esper, Peers, per se, Serpe, perse

From Middle High German Sprēwe, from Old High German Sprēwa, from a Slavic language (compare Lower Sorbian Sprjewja, Czech Spréva, Polish Sprewa), but ultimately of Germanic origin, related to spreizen (“to spread, disperse”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃpʁeː/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Homophone: Spray (one pronunciation)

die Spree f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Spree)

1. Spree (a river in eastern Germany)
   • 1988, “Westerland”‎^[1]performed by Die Ärzte:

     Wie oft stand ich schon am Ufer, wie oft sprang ich in die Spree!
     Wie oft mussten sie mich retten, damit ich nicht untergeh!

     How many times I stood by the riverside, how many times I jumped into the Spree!
     How many times they had to save me, so that I wouldn’t drown!

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Spree f (plural --)

1. blackbird