Louvain

American  

[loo-van] / luˈvɛ̃ /

noun

1. a city in central Belgium.

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Louvain British  

/ luvɛ̃ /

noun

1. Flemish name: Leuven.  a town in central Belgium, in Flemish Brabant province: capital of the duchy of Brabant (11th–15th centuries) and centre of the cloth trade; university (1426). Pop: 89 777 (2004 est)

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Example Sentences

In 2025, researchers at the University of Louvain and Imperial College London clarified how this harmful chain reaction might be counteracted.

From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025

Also at the conference was Michel Poulain, a Belgian demographer from the Catholic University of Louvain.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 20, 2024

He earned his master’s degree in religious studies from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium in 1989 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1990 for the Diocese of Nashville.

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024

Dr. Alexandre was just 29 and fresh off a yearlong fellowship at Harvard Medical School when, in June 1963, a young patient was wheeled into the hospital where he worked in Louvain, Belgium.

From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024

At the university town of Louvain, known as “the Oxford of Belgium,” nervous German soldiers misinterpreted a nighttime movement of their own troops.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman