Padua

[paj-oo-uh]

noun

1. a city in NE Italy.

Padua

/ 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)

Other Word Forms

• Paduan adjective

Example Sentences

The OPA1 inhibitors, created by collaborators at the University of Padua in Italy, are still lead compounds and will require further refinement before clinical testing can begin.

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"The key to the quenching mechanism lies in how quickly and efficiently the triplet states can be deactivated," said Alessandro Agostini, researcher at the University of Padua, Italy and co-lead author of the study.

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

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Picco had political science degrees from the University of Padua and the University of California, Santa Barbara, along with the universities of Prague and Amsterdam.

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While studying there, she spent a junior year in Padua.

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