Sorbonne

[ sawr-bon, -buhn; French sawr-bawn ]

/ sɔrˈbɒn, -ˈbʌn; French sɔrˈbɔn /

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noun

the seat of the faculties of arts and letters of the University of Paris.

a theological college founded in Paris in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon, suppressed in 1792, and ceasing to exist about 1850.

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Words nearby Sorbonne

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How to use Sorbonne in a sentence

The model will be too big and too slow to be useful to companies, says Karën Fort, an associate professor at the Sorbonne.
The race to understand the exhilarating, dangerous world of language AI|Karen Hao|May 20, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Not really, but the day I saw a stack of my books in a window of the Sorbonne comes close.
William H. Gass: How I Write|Noah Charney|March 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But Hala Shoukair, 53, had no hangups sketching from models at the Sorbonne in Paris, during the 1970s.
The Rise of Islamo-Erotica|Betwa Sharma|March 25, 2010|DAILY BEAST
While Roosevelt praised action and risk-taking in his Sorbonne speech, he also counseled elevating politics itself.
Is Obama Too Thoughtful?|Michael Signer|February 13, 2010|DAILY BEAST

At the latter date all artists were obliged to vacate the Sorbonne ateliers to make room for some new department of instruction.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
At Sorbonne a chair of comparative legislation was created for him.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z|Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe
It was only by chance that I came upon this organization one day in July, walking home from the Sorbonne.
Ways of War and Peace|Delia Austrian
The greater part are studying French in the Sorbonne, though a few are devoting their time to the study of painting and music.
Ways of War and Peace|Delia Austrian
The Sorbonne declared, in the sixteenth century, that it was heretical to say that heretics ought not to be burned.
Letters To Eugenia|Paul Henri Thiry Holbach

British Dictionary definitions for Sorbonne

Sorbonne

/ (French sɔrbɔn) /

noun

the Sorbonne a part of the University of Paris containing the faculties of science and literature: founded in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon as a theological college; given to the university in 1808

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