Fribourg

American  

[free-boor] / friˈbur /

noun

1. a canton in W Switzerland. 644 sq. mi. (1,668 sq. km).

2. a town in and the capital of this canton.

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Fribourg British  

/ fribur /

noun

1. a canton in W Switzerland. Capital: Fribourg. Pop: 242 700 (2002 est). Area: 1676 sq km (645 sq miles)

2. a town in W Switzerland, capital of Fribourg canton: university (1889). Pop: 35 547 (2000)

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Example Sentences

“Animals and pathogens do not care about political borders,” said Jérôme Gippet, a biologist at the University of Fribourg and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and the study’s lead author.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Italy, meanwhile, exports food, large quantities of marble and ceramics, said TLF's Fribourg.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

Researchers at ULiège have collaborated with the University of Fribourg in Switzerland to investigate whether the body is truly disconnected from the external world during sleep.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2024

The attack happened after a EuroCup women’s match where the Gdynia team defeated rivals from Switzerland, BCF Elfic Fribourg, 77-47.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 22, 2023

He acquitted himself very bravely; and at length, by the Reduction of Landau and Fribourg, he procur'd that Peace, by which the Electors of Cologne and Bavaria were restor'd to their Dominions.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von