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say it: BRAN-duhn-burg
brandenburg is a noun meaning "the territory of an Elector (of the Holy Roman Empire) that expanded to become the kingdom of Prussia in 1701". It carries one recorded sense.
the territory of an Elector (of the Holy Roman Empire) that expanded to become the kingdom of Prussia in 1701
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for brandenburg come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.