Bucharest

American  

[boo-kuh-rest, byoo-] / ˈbu kəˌrɛst, ˈbju- /

noun

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

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Bucharest British  

/ ˌbjuː-, ˌbuːkəˈrɛst /

noun

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

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Bucharest Cultural  

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.

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Example Sentences

Staff at Pitești children's hospital, north-west of Bucharest, were the first to notice errors on Sunday morning, the day after the attack had begun.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

In Bucharest, where he arrived in 1945, Paul Antschel became Paul Celan, the new name an anagrammatic rebirth from the Romanian spelling of “Ancel.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

The helmet itself -- a national treasure in Romania -- suffered only slight damage and was returned to Bucharest in a near-perfect state.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

The pieces were on loan from a Bucharest museum, whose head was promptly sacked for lending the works out in the first place.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

We are due to arrive between two and three in the morning; but already, at Bucharest, we are three hours late, so we cannot possibly get in till well after sun-up.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker