La Coruña

American  

[lah kaw-roo-nyah] / ˌlɑ kɔˈru nyɑ /

noun

1. a seaport in NW Spain.

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La Coruña British  

/ la koˈruɲa /

noun

1. English name: Corunna.  Galician name: A Coruña.  a port in NW Spain, on the Atlantic: point of departure for the Spanish Armada (1588); site of the defeat of the French by the British under Sir John Moore in the Peninsular War (1809). Pop: 243 902 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

The Verity was travelling from the northern German city of Bremen to Immingham in the UK when it collided with the Polesie, which had departed from Hamburg on a journey to La Coruña in Spain.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2023

He arrived from Deportivo La Coruña in 1962 and played 14 seasons for Madrid.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2023

Recently split from a boyfriend, she envisioned falling in love with an attractive Spanish man and settling down in La Coruña, the port city where Zara is based.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2017

She has a psychology degree from the Universidad de Santiago and lives in the Galician town of La Coruña, on the Atlantic coast, with her husband and three kids.

From Forbes • Mar. 3, 2014

We make a brief stop in La Coruña, Spain, where we are enchanted to hear the Spanish language.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar