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say it: HURZ-burg
herzberg is a noun meaning "Canadian physicist (born in Germany) noted for contributions to understanding the structure of molecules (born in 1904)". It is pronounced /ˈhɝzbɚɡ/ — HURZ-burg. It carries one recorded sense.
Canadian physicist (born in Germany) noted for contributions to understanding the structure of molecules (born in 1904)
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 herzberg 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.