Coimbra

American  

[kween-bruh] / ˈkwĩ brə /

noun

1. a city in central Portugal: noted university founded at Lisbon 1290, transferred here 1537.

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Coimbra British  

/ ˈkuimbrə /

noun

1. a city in central Portugal: capital of Portugal from 1190 to 1260; seat of the country's oldest university. Pop: 148 474 (2001)

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Example Sentences

In China, “as with most state policies regarding marriage, women are the central target,” said Gonçalo Santos, an anthropology professor who studies rural China at the University of Coimbra, in Portugal.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2023

Most were Brazilian sons of the old landed aristocracy, and some had represented Brazil in the Portuguese Cortes, including the liberal José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva, educated at Portugal’s Coimbra University.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Simple, yes, but wrapping a lot of potatoes will still be laborious, notes Isabel Conceição, a nematode expert at the University of Coimbra.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 27, 2022

Secretive Baroque library dating to 1717 in the university town of Coimbra.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2021

Coimbra, 1713. ñame—Genus of monocotyledonous plants of the family of the dioscoreas.

From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Barbosa, Duarte