Turin

[ toor-in, tyoor-, too-rin, tyoo- ]

noun

1. a city in NW Italy, on the Po: capital of the Kingdom of Italy 1860–65.

Turin

/ tjʊəˈrɪn /

noun

1. a city in NW Italy, capital of Piedmont region, on the River Po: became capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1720; first capital (1861–65) of united Italy; university (1405); a major industrial centre, producing most of Italy's cars. Pop: 865 263 (2001) Italian nameTorino

Example Sentences

Daraprim patient Patrick Rice discusses how, via an online AMA, he asked Shkreli about the high price of his medicine, and wound up getting it for free courtesy of the Turin bigwig.

From The Daily Beast

Before moving to Berlin over the past year, he’d spent much of the last half decade living by a river in Turin, Italy.

From Washington Post

She holds degrees from the universities of Oxford and Turin.

From Nautilus

His ban was reduced to two years, by which time he had been signed by the Turin club Juventus, allowing Italy Manager Enzo Bearzot to include him in his 1982 World Cup squad.

From Washington Post

Silvia Giorgis, a 49-year-old anesthesiologist at the Maria Vittoria hospital in Turin, Italy, says doctors there rode the “adrenaline of a new challenge” during the first wave, but are now frustrated that too little was done to prevent a rebound.

From Time

Authorities blame anarchists protesting a proposed high-speed rail line called TAV that will link Turin and Lyon, France.

From The Daily Beast

This time, he hung them in his kitchen above the same table he had moved from Turin.

From The Daily Beast

From Turin, as Ligety continued his rise to success in the alpine ski world, he and Miller would interact more as peers.

From The Daily Beast

Learning from Turin, he largely avoided the media all together.

From The Daily Beast

Part of his Turin unraveling was that Miller clearly did not go in with the Olympic spirit he brought to Salt Lake City.

From The Daily Beast

The Marchesa Baroli, at Turin, provided for his maintenance, by engaging him as her secretary and librarian.

From Project Gutenberg

He served for some years in the army, and in 1755 was sent to Turin as envoy extraordinary.

From Project Gutenberg

His Majesty the Emperor,” he said, “commands me to communicate to you good tidings of your relations at Turin.

From Project Gutenberg

How the good old man had deceived himself in the expectation that I should so soon rejoin him at Turin!

From Project Gutenberg

He attacked the Turin nobles, forgetting that they and their sons were at the war, giving their lives for the cause he loved.

From Project Gutenberg