Altona is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Altona in a sentence
Altona meaning
- A borough in the city state of Hamburg, Germany.
- A suburb (and former city) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- A town within Rhineland municipality, Manitoba, Canada.
Using Altona
- The main meaning on this page is: A borough in the city state of Hamburg, Germany. | A suburb (and former city) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. | A town within Rhineland municipality, Manitoba, Canada.
- In the example corpus, altona often appears in combinations such as: in altona, to altona, altona was.
Context around Altona
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Altona
- In this selection, "altona" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, krefeld, 1864, north, meadows and beach stand out and add context to how "altona" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include access from altona north and altona was an. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "altona" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with altona
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Altona was an independent city until 1937. (7 words)
From 1640 to 1864, Altona was under the administration of the Danish monarchy. (13 words)
One store in Altona was targeted twice on Thursday and then again on Friday this week. (16 words)
Physician to King Christian VII During Struensee's near ten-year residence in Altona he came into contact with a circle of aristocrats who had been sent away from the royal court in Copenhagen. (34 words)
An Altona Meadows man was pulled over 20km away from his home in Brimbank and claimed he was visiting a friend despite being aware of restrictions because he “got bored at home”. (32 words)
A group of people from Tarneit in the city's west had bragged online about ignoring restrictions and going to the beach in Altona, nearly 20 kilometres away, today. (29 words)
Example sentences (16)
It is ideal for attending the big Melbourne competitions, and I enjoy the Williamstown beach and Altona beach – they are both easy access from Altona North.
Kayes Drain feeds into Laverton Creek, which runs alongside a number of private properties and public spaces flowing through the Altona Foreshore Reserve wetlands to Altona Bay.
One store in Altona was targeted twice on Thursday and then again on Friday this week.
A group of people from Tarneit in the city's west had bragged online about ignoring restrictions and going to the beach in Altona, nearly 20 kilometres away, today.
An Altona Meadows man was pulled over 20km away from his home in Brimbank and claimed he was visiting a friend despite being aware of restrictions because he “got bored at home”.
He seems born to footy, yet it was not encouraged in his youth in Altona North in Melbourne’s inner west.
The women were all walking along the Skelton Creek Trail in Altona Meadows between 3.30pm and 4pm on Thursday when a man rode up to them.
The Truganina Explosives Reserve at Altona will be opened to the public for an event marking World Mental Health Day.
There are Altona-bound delays from Tilburn Road and inbound on the Western Freeway from Hopkins Road.
A bit more downstream the Low Elbe's two main anabranches Northern Elbe and the Köhlbrand reunite south of Altona -Altstadt, a locality of Hamburg.
Altona was an independent city until 1937.
As Quaker Evangelists moved into Germany they received a sympathetic audience among the larger of these German-Mennonite congregations around Krefeld, Altona-Hamburg, Gronau and Emden.
From 1640 to 1864, Altona was under the administration of the Danish monarchy.
On the way, he visited the astronomer Heinrich Christian Schumacher in Altona, now a district of Hamburg.
Physician to King Christian VII During Struensee's near ten-year residence in Altona he came into contact with a circle of aristocrats who had been sent away from the royal court in Copenhagen.
When Adam and Maria Dorothea Struensee moved to Altona in 1758, where the elder Struensee became pastor of Trinitatiskirche (Trinity’s Church), Johann Friedrich moved with them.
Common combinations with altona
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in altona 6×
- to altona 3×
- altona was 3×
- altona north 2×
- altona meadows 2×