Aarau

American  

[ahr-ou] / ˈɑr aʊ /

noun

1. a town in and capital of Aargau, in N Switzerland.

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Aarau British  

/ ˈaːrau /

noun

1. a town in N Switzerland, capital of Aargau canton: capital of the Helvetic Republic from 1798 to 1803. Pop: 15 470 (2000)

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Example Sentences

He stored them in the cavernous depot he had built under his castle at Brestenberg, near the Swiss city of Aarau.

From New York Times

Stepping in close, I found a few little black marks left in the soft metal by the compressed sand in which the cube had been molded in Aarau, Switzerland.

From New York Times

Last summer, while attending the Lucerne Festival, I paid a visit to Frey in Aarau and spoke to him about his life and music.

From The New Yorker

The composer Jürg Frey, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music, has spent almost his entire life in the vicinity of the Swiss town of Aarau, about thirty miles west of Zurich.

From The New Yorker

Until a few years ago, he had a day job teaching clarinet to children at the Aarau Music School.

From The New Yorker