Aix-en-Provence

American  

[ek-sahn-praw-vahns, eyks-ahn-pruh-vahns] / ɛk sɑ̃ prɔˈvɑ̃s, ˈeɪks ɑn prəˈvɑns /

noun

1. a city in SE France, N of Marseilles.

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Aix-en-Provence British  

/ ɛksɑ̃prɔvɑ̃s /

noun

1. Also called: Aix.  a city and spa in SE France: the medieval capital of Provence. Pop: 134 222 (1999)

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Example Sentences

The trial is being held behind closed doors in the city of Aix-en-Provence at the request of one of the alleged victims, and is due to last at least two weeks.

From BBC

But for smaller companies like Gojob, a temporary recruitment specialist using AI solutions with a research laboratory in Aix-en-Provence, finding top-notch engineers can still prove difficult.

From Barron's

Prisons in Toulon, Aix-En-Provence, Marseille, Valence and Nîmes in southern France, and in Villepinte and Nanterre, near Paris were among those targeted.

From BBC

The newspaper lists six establishments as being targeted: in Toulon, Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, Valence and Nîmes, Luynes, Villepinte, and Nanterre.

From BBC

Nine years ago, Haïm was the conductor in a highly provocative staging of “Il Trionfo” at the summer Aix-en-Provence festival that included a filmed clip of the French theorist Jacques Derrida, who was sometimes accused of doing to literary studies what Boulez had done to music, and vice versa.

From Los Angeles Times