Edinburgh

[ed-n-bur-uh, -buhr-uh, -bruh]

noun

1. Duke of. Philip.

2. a city in and the capital of Scotland, in the SE part: administrative center of the Lothian region.

Edinburgh

¹

/ -brə, ˈɛdɪnbərə /

noun

1. the capital of Scotland and seat of the Scottish Parliament (from 1999), in City of Edinburgh council area on the S side of the Firth of Forth: became the capital in the 15th century; castle; three universities (including University of Edinburgh, 1583); commercial and cultural centre, noted for its annual festival. Pop: 430 082 (2001)

2. a council area in central Scotland, created from part of Lothian region in 1996. Pop: 448 370 (2003 est). Area: 262 sq km (101 sq miles)

Edinburgh

²

/ -brə, ˈɛdɪnbərə /

noun

1. Duke of, title of Prince Philip Mountbatten. born 1921, husband of Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Edinburgh

1. Capital of Scotland, located in the Lothian region in the southeastern part; Scotland's banking and administrative center.

The University of Edinburgh, which was founded in the sixteenth century, is noted for its faculties of divinity, law, medicine, music, and the arts.

As a cultural center, Edinburgh was especially prominent in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith, the authors Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott, and the scientist James Hutton were active.

Example Sentences

Detectives working on Operation Portaledge, which was set up in response to the gang violence across Scotland's central belt from Glasgow to Edinburgh, have so far made 57 arrests.

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Charles Darwin is a household name, but how many people know that the world’s most famous naturalist learned taxidermy from John Edmonstone, a formerly enslaved Black Briton who owned a bird-stuffing shop in Edinburgh, Scotland?

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By comparison, at that time motorists were charged 80p to cross the Forth Road Bridge which connected Edinburgh and Fife.

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Pearson denied murder and claimed in court that Ms Leveque had stabbed herself - but a jury found him guilty after a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.

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The case will be heard at the Court of Session in Edinburgh later and a decision is expected further down the line.

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