Ostend

[os-tend, os-tend]

noun

1. a seaport in NW Belgium.

Ostend

/ ɒsˈtɛnd /

noun

1. French name: Ostende. Flemish name: Oostende. a port and resort in NW Belgium, in West Flanders on the North Sea. Pop: 68 273 (2004 est)

Example Sentences

Photographer Vincent Oliver captured the essence of train travel in the 70s, so take a trip down memory lane and marvel over the days when a journey to Ostend was as possible as one to Orpington.

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He took the promoter's business card and a week later called and arranged to move to the coastal city of Ostend.

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We spent an afternoon in a private room in a concert hall in Ostend flicking through page after page of documents revealing every aspect of Marvin Gaye's life at the time.

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We sat, spellbound, looking out at the Ostend promenade where Marvin used to enjoy jogging as we listened to the startling purity and power of that voice in studio recordings which had never been heard before.

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The pair, a man and a woman in their early 20s, were picked up after a series of raids on houses in Diepenbeek and Ostend, prosecutors said.

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