Neuchâtel

American  

[noo-shuh-tel, nyoo-, noo-shuh-tel, nyoo-, nœ-shah-tel] / ˌnu ʃəˈtɛl, ˌnyu-, ˈnu ʃəˌtɛl, ˈnyu-, nœ ʃɑˈtɛl /

noun

1. a canton in W Switzerland. 309 sq. mi. (800 sq. km).

2. the capital of this canton, on the Lake of Neuchâtel.

3. Lake of, a lake in W Switzerland. 85 sq. mi. (220 sq. km).

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Neuchâtel British  

/ nøʃɑtɛl /

noun

1. a canton in the Jura Mountains of W Switzerland. Capital: Neuchâtel. Pop: 167 000 (2002 est). Area: 798 sq km (308 sq miles)

2. a town in W Switzerland, capital of Neuchâtel canton, on Lake Neuchâtel: until 1848 the seat of the last hereditary rulers in Switzerland. Pop: 32 914 (2000)

3. a lake in W Switzerland: the largest lake wholly in Switzerland. Area: 216 sq km (83 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

A team from the University of Portsmouth in England, the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland, and Université Clermont Auvergne in France, filmed 768 vocalisations in 28 young chimpanzees at a sanctuary in Zambia.

From Science Daily • Oct. 17, 2023

The oath alone won’t fix these deeper problems, agrees Sundin’s collaborator Dominique Roche, an ecologist and metascientist at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 12, 2022

Barclay notes that in addition to helping users, his “Unfollow Everything” tool was being used by researchers at the Swiss University of Neuchâtel to study the effects of the News Feed on people’s happiness.

From The Verge • Oct. 8, 2021

This is bad for its users, and also for the University of Neuchâtel which will no longer be able to use it to study the News Feed.

From Slate • Oct. 7, 2021

On Lake Neuchâtel it is estimated that there were more than forty such circular houses.

From Famous Men of Science by Bolton, Sarah K.