Louvain

American  

[loo-van] / luˈvɛ̃ /

noun

1. a city in central Belgium.

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Louvain British  

/ luvɛ̃ /

noun

1. Flemish name: Leuven.  a town in central Belgium, in Flemish Brabant province: capital of the duchy of Brabant (11th–15th centuries) and centre of the cloth trade; university (1426). Pop: 89 777 (2004 est)

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Example Sentences

"What we eat shapes our microbes and some of their molecules can protect us from diabetes. That's nutrition in action!" said University of Louvain, Prof. Cani.

From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025

Also at the conference was Michel Poulain, a Belgian demographer from the Catholic University of Louvain.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 20, 2024

The data backs up Kishore, said disaster epidemiologist Debarati Guha-Sapir of the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, who created a global disaster database.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2024

Dr. Alexandre was just 29 and fresh off a yearlong fellowship at Harvard Medical School when, in June 1963, a young patient was wheeled into the hospital where he worked in Louvain, Belgium.

From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024

Following in the family tradition, Vesalius went first to the University of Louvain then, in 1533, enrolled to study medicine in Paris.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin