Bucharest

[boo-kuh-rest, byoo-]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Romania, in the S part.

Bucharest

/ ˌbjuː-, ˌbuːkəˈrɛst /

noun

1. Romanian name: Bucureşti. the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)

Bucharest

1. Capital of Romania and largest city in the country, located in south-central Romania on a tributary of the Danube River; Romania's chief industrial and communications center.

Example Sentences

Flights were also diverted in Bucharest on Sunday after a drone was sighted in airspace above the airport by pilots of a Turkish Airlines flight.

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The case rests on a planned raid on the Romanian capital Bucharest on 8 December, which police foiled.

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"The three works now exhibited in Bucharest were not documented, photographed, or shown during the artist's lifetime," said the art historian and curator, who co-authored the American Association of Museums guide to provenance research.

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It was a striking cameo which lays down the gauntlet to Thelin to pick him from the start in Bucharest next week.

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The first plane to depart from the airport after its reopening was a Wizz Air flight to Bucharest, Romania, which had been scheduled to leave Birmingham at 14:10.

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