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Padua

American  
[paj-oo-uh] / ˈpædʒ u ə /

noun

  1. a city in NE Italy.


Padua British  
/ ˈpædʒʊə, ˈpædjʊə /

noun

  1. Latin name: Patavium.  Italian name: Padova.  a city in NE Italy, in Veneto: important in Roman and Renaissance times; university (1222); botanical garden (1545). Pop: 204 870 (2001)

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Nathaniel Padua, 20, joined Complete last year after stints at fast-food restaurants.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Zeina’s being pushed on a swing in a small playground in the suburbs of the northern Italian city of Padua.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2024

A muon collider’s ability to more clearly probe Higgs physics sets it apart, says Donatella Lucchesi, an experimentalist at the University of Padua and Italy’s National Institute of Nuclear Physics.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 27, 2024

The team behind this research includes contributors based in Italy at the University of Padua, Museum of Nature South Tyrol, and the Museo delle Scienze in Trento.

From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2024

“When I heard of my father’s death, I was traveling to the university in Padua, where thousands come to study with the masters of medicine, to dissect every part of man and discover his secrets.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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