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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Example Sentences

The third is Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California, a Catholic school that has announced it will end all undergraduate programs and offer only graduate school classes.

From Washington Times • Apr. 4, 2023

Stanford University is working on plans to expand its physical presence in the Bay Area by acquiring the unused campus of the Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2022

Nick Wood and his wife Fiona have had the worst possible start to their journey to Namur in Belgium via Brussels for a conference.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2022

“I think that everybody should have the choice,” Virginie, a doctor’s assistant from the southern Belgian region of Namur who did not want to provide her full name, told The Associated Press.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 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 P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von