geneva

¹

[ juh-nee-vuh ]

noun

1. Hollands.

Geneva

²

[ juh-nee-vuh ]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of the canton of Geneva, in southwestern Switzerland, on the Lake of Geneva: seat of the League of Nations 1920–46.
2. a canton in southwestern Switzerland. 109 sq. mi. (282 sq. km).
3. Lake of Geneva. Also called Lake Leman [leyk, , lee, -m, uh, n]. a lake between southwestern Switzerland and France. 45 miles (72 km) long; 225 sq. mi. (583 sq. km).
4. a city in central New York.
5. a female given name.

Geneva

/ dʒɪˈniːvə /

noun

1. a city in SW Switzerland, in the Rhône valley on Lake Geneva: centre of Calvinism; headquarters of the International Red Cross (1864), the International Labour Office (1925), the League of Nations (1929–46), the World Health Organization, and the European office of the United Nations; banking centre. Pop: 177 500 (2002 est)
2. a canton in SW Switzerland. Capital: Geneva. Pop: 419 300 (2002 est). Area: 282 sq km (109 sq miles) French nameGenève German nameGenf
3. Lake Geneva
   a lake between SW Switzerland and E France: fed and drained by the River Rhône, it is the largest of the Alpine lakes; the surface is subject to considerable changes of level. Area: 580 sq km (224 sq miles) French nameLac Léman German nameGenfersee

Geneva

1. City in southwestern Switzerland , lying on the western end of Lake Geneva, where the Rhone River leaves the lake.

Notes

The International Labor Organization, the International Red Cross , and the World Council of Churches are also based in Geneva.

Because of Switzerland's strict neutrality, Geneva provides an impartial meeting ground for representatives of other nations.

The Geneva Conventions , signed first in 1864 and then in 1906, 1929, 1949, and 1977, provide rules for the humane treatment of prisoners and wounded persons during a war.

The Geneva Accords were a group of four agreements made in 1954, ending seven and a half years of war in Indochina .

Under the leadership of John Calvin in the sixteenth century, Geneva was the center of Protestantism.

The city housed the headquarters of the League of Nations in the Palace of Nations, which is now the European headquarters of the United Nations .

Word History and Origins

Origin of geneva¹

First recorded in 1700–10; from Dutch genever, from Old French genevre “juniper berries,” from assumed Vulgar Latin jeniperus, from Latin jūniperus “juniper tree, juniper wood, juniper berry”

Example Sentences

The measurements are important for studies at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, which slams protons together to look for new phenomena.

From Science News

Subsequent work focusing on the Swiss Reformation, where the epicenters were Zurich and Geneva, reveals strikingly similar patterns.

From Nautilus

Internet voting has been used in other countries—such as in Switzerland, for Geneva’s canton elections since 2003—but nowhere else is it used as routinely and extensively as in Estonia.

From Quartz

Meyer joined forces with the World Economic Forum in Geneva to launch CommonPass, and recruited Alan Warren, a former Google veep for engineering who had built Google Sheets and Google Docs, to create the platform.

From Fortune

The founders of ClearFlame Engine Technologies, a four-year-old startup based in Geneva, Illinois, say they have found a way to clean them up.

From TechCrunch

Experts pointed us to identical passages in each of the four Geneva treaties, known as "Common Article 3."

From The Daily Beast

Outposts budded in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Geneva, and various other burgs, including, yes, Amsterdam.

From The Daily Beast

To break up the trip to Zaire, the two stopped in Geneva to meet with leaders at the World Health Organization.

From The Daily Beast

“We follow the Geneva Convention, just like any country,” said Sabin Hadad, spokesperson for the Israeli Interior Ministry.

From The Daily Beast

On June 5, a highway worker cutting an overgrown patch along a road in Geneva, Wisconsin, came upon a pair of discarded suitcases.

From The Daily Beast

Ages back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.

From Project Gutenberg

John Alphonsus Turretini died; professor of ecclesiastical history at Geneva, distinguished for his learning.

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From Berlin we travelled to Geneva, where we spent ten days with my sister and her family (the Davidovs).

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Voltaire lived from 1755 to 1758 at les Dlices near Geneva, and within Genevan territory.

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Calvin thereupon adopted Geneva as the site of his moral fortunes; he made it thenceforth the citadel of his ideas.

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