Edinburgh

American  

[ed-n-bur-uh, -buhr-uh, -bruh] / ˈɛd nˌbɜr ə, -ˌbʌr ə, -brə /

noun

1. Duke of. Philip.

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

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Edinburgh ¹ British  

/ -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)

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Edinburgh ² British  

/ -brə, ˈɛdɪnbərə /

noun

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

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Edinburgh Cultural  

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

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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

"When a battery fails, it doesn't necessarily ignite, it will often produce some off-gases," says Stephen Welch, senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh's Fire Research Centre.

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"I'm just so excited to look at that and just see the whole bed of Antarctica at once," said Prof Robert Bingham, a glaciologist at the University of Edinburgh who co-authored the study.

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The first stage of the men's race will start in Edinburgh and finish in Carlisle, while the women's Tour will get under way in Leeds and head to Manchester.

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They couldn't manage the same feat against Hibernian in the Edinburgh derby just after Christmas, but they were a Raphael Sallinger super save away from a point.

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Finn Russell is looking forward to the challenge of going up against several Scotland team-mates when Bath face Edinburgh in the European Champions Cup.

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