1. a city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders; formerly it was Charlemagne's northern capital; [syn: Aachen, Aken, Aix-la-Chapelle]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Aachen
n 1: a city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian
borders; formerly it was Charlemagne's northern capital
[syn: Aachen, Aken, Aix-la-Chapelle]