Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

Bruxelles

American  
[bry-sel, bryk-] / brüˈsɛl, brük- /

noun

  1. Brussels.


Bruxelles British  
/ brysɛl /

noun

  1. the French name for Brussels

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

“Defense spending is so big that it would really be a major game-changer in terms of basic and military-applied research,” said Guntram Wolff, professor of economics at Université Libre de Bruxelles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

Co-author Pierre Gaspard at the Université Libre de Bruxelles developed a reaction scheme and theoretically imposedperiodically changing temperatures to replicate the experimental rates and selectivities of the reaction.

From Science Daily • Oct. 5, 2023

“The discovery is quite extraordinary,” said Denis Fournier, an ant biologist at the Université libre de Bruxelles who was not involved in the research.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023

Yann-Aël Le Borgne and Gianluca Bontempi, data scientists at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and the authors of an online handbook about credit card fraud detection, explained what has changed.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2022

A very distinct and careful statement of the distinction between pain and hyper�sthesia will be found in a prize essay "On Neuralgia" by M. C. Vanlair, Jour. de Bruxelles, tom. xl., xli.,

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.