Aubervilliers

American  

[oh-ber-vee-lyey] / oʊ bɛr viˈlyeɪ /

noun

1. a town in N France, a suburb of Paris.

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Aubervilliers British  

/ obɛrvilje /

noun

1. Former name: Notre-Dame-des-Vertus.  an industrial suburb of Paris, on the Seine. Pop: 63 136 (1999)

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Example Sentences

Like Abdoulaye N., Mac Tyer comes from Aubervilliers, and he often raps about violence and social injustice in the banlieue.

From The Wall Street Journal

He was detained in the town of Laval, in western France, though he is from Aubervilliers, the Paris suburb that was home to the other suspected thieves.

From The Wall Street Journal

Meanwhile it has been revealed that one of the suspected thieves, named as Abdoulaye N, 39, was for many years considered a local hero in the Aubervilliers neighbourhood of northern Paris, renowned for his often illegal feats of motorcycling.

From BBC

Both lived in the working-class banlieue of Aubervilliers, just north of Paris.

From The Wall Street Journal

The second suspect is a 39-year-old unlicensed taxi driver from the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers.

From Barron's