Bucharest

[ boo-kuh-rest, byoo- ]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Romania, in the S part.

Bucharest

/ ˌbuːkəˈrɛst; ˌbjuː- /

noun

1. the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est) Romanian nameBucureşti

Bucharest

1. Capital of Romania and largest city in the country, located in south-central Romania on a tributary of the Danube River ; Romania's chief industrial and communications center.

Example Sentences

Algolia is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Atlanta, Paris, London and Bucharest.

From Search Engine Land

According to the ministry’s statement on Twitter, officials received 130 Nigerians at Bucharest, the Romanian capital, 74 at Budapest in Hungary, and 52 in the Polish capital Warsaw.

From Quartz

Bogdan Botezatu, director of threat research at Bucharest, Romania–based Bitdefender, said the company wasn’t aware of the earlier success in unlocking files infected by DarkSide.

From MIT Technology Review

The most glittering example is Romanian filmmaker Alexander Nanau’s Collective, a superb documentary about the aftermath of a deadly 2015 nightclub fire in Bucharest.

From Time

Charlie just lost his mother, and escapes the pain with a trip to Bucharest.

From The Daily Beast

After graduating in 1973 from the Ion Mincu Institute of Architecture in Bucharest, she joined the state design institute.

From The Daily Beast

She was brought up in Sighisoara, a Transylvanian fortress town north-west of Bucharest.

From The Daily Beast

The following year she stood for election as mayor of Bucharest but won less than four per cent of the vote.

From The Daily Beast

He appointed a Jewish American as consul to Bucharest “for the benefit of the people who are laboring under severe oppression.”

From The Daily Beast

Russian and Turkish troops occupied Jassy and Bucharest during the summer.

From Project Gutenberg

A daughter married the convert Glck, a physician of high standing in Bucharest.

From Project Gutenberg

The prince yielded to superior force, and in March, 1886, a treaty of peace was signed at Bucharest.

From Project Gutenberg

Some ten years before the time of which we are speaking, the family had left Bucharest to come and live in Paris.

From Project Gutenberg

Bucharest, where I am now, is close on the Turkish frontier, being only half a day's journey.

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