Associations to the word «Memel»

Wiktionary

MEMEL, proper noun. (chiefly historical) A city, historically part of East Prussia, now called Klaipėda and part of Lithuania.
MEMEL, proper noun. A river that runs by this city; the Neman.

Dictionary definition

MEMEL, noun. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea; formerly an important trading town of the Hanseatic League.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope