Spree - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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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/
• Homophone: Spray (one pronunciation)

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

1. Spree (a river in eastern Germany)

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Spree f (plural --)

1. blackbird