Ostend

[ os-tend, os-tend ]

noun

1. a seaport in NW Belgium.

Ostend

/ ɒsˈtɛnd /

noun

1. a port and resort in NW Belgium, in West Flanders on the North Sea. Pop: 68 273 (2004 est) French nameOstendeɔstɑ̃d Flemish nameOostende

Example Sentences

He took the promoter's business card and a week later called and arranged to move to the coastal city of Ostend.

From BBC

We spent an afternoon in a private room in a concert hall in Ostend flicking through page after page of documents revealing every aspect of Marvin Gaye's life at the time.

From BBC

We sat, spellbound, looking out at the Ostend promenade where Marvin used to enjoy jogging as we listened to the startling purity and power of that voice in studio recordings which had never been heard before.

From BBC

The pair, a man and a woman in their early 20s, were picked up after a series of raids on houses in Diepenbeek and Ostend, prosecutors said.

From BBC

At a summit held in Ostend, a Belgian port, in April, the leaders of nine European governments pledged to work together to roughly quadruple the already substantial amount of offshore wind generation capacity in the North Sea and nearby waters by 2030 and to increase it by about tenfold by 2050.

From New York Times

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