Neuchâtel

[ noo-shuh-tel, nyoo-, noo-shuh-tel, nyoo-; French nœ-shah-tel ]

noun

1. a canton in W Switzerland. 309 sq. mi. (800 sq. km).
2. the capital of this canton, on the Lake of Neuchâtel.
3. Lake of, a lake in W Switzerland. 85 sq. mi. (220 sq. km).

Neuchâtel

/ nøʃɑtɛl /

noun

1. a canton in the Jura Mountains of W Switzerland. Capital: Neuchâtel. Pop: 167 000 (2002 est). Area: 798 sq km (308 sq miles)
2. a town in W Switzerland, capital of Neuchâtel canton, on Lake Neuchâtel: until 1848 the seat of the last hereditary rulers in Switzerland. Pop: 32 914 (2000)
3. Lake Neuchâtel
   a lake in W Switzerland: the largest lake wholly in Switzerland. Area: 216 sq km (83 sq miles)

Example Sentences

M. de Droz, of la Chaux de Fonds, in the province of Neuchatel, has also executed some curious pieces of mechanism.

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The matter was put before Neuchatel, as he entered the club, to which he had been recently elected with acclamation.

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At the dissolution of 1831, Adrian Neuchatel was a candidate for a popular constituency, and was elected at the head of the poll.

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The views of Mrs. Neuchatel were peculiar, and therefore not always, or even easily, comprehended.

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Mrs. Neuchatel exercised on him all the unrivalled arts by which she so unmistakably discovered character.

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