Namur

American  

[nah-moor, na-myr] / nɑˈmʊər, naˈmür /

noun

1. a province in S Belgium. 1,413 sq. mi. (3,660 sq. km).

2. a city in and capital of this province, on the Sambre and Meuse rivers.

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Namur British  

/ næˈmʊə, naˈmyr /

noun

1. a province of S Belgium. Capital: Namur. Pop: 452 856 (2004 est). Area: 3660 sq km (1413 sq miles)

2. a town in S Belgium, capital of Namur province: strategically situated on a promontory between the Sambre and Meuse Rivers, besieged and captured many times. Pop: 106 213 (2004 est)

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Namur

Fumes have travelled into the neighbouring Namur province, where authorities had to ask residents to stop saturating emergency phone lines with reports of the smell.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

But there is also the promise of romance, which drew Marie Namur to South Korea from her native Belgium.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2024

She noted that Stanford University announced this week that it intended to buy the Belmont campus of Notre Dame de Namur University, a small Catholic institution founded in 1851.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2021

She said when her brother returned to Saudi Arabia in 2013 after completing a business degree at Notre Dame de Namur University in California, he struggled to find work.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2021

The Suffragans granted to this Metropolitan were the Bishoprics of Arras, Tournay, St. Omer and Namur, which were anciently Suffragan Sees to the Church of Rheims.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz