Louvain

[ French loo-van ]

noun

1. a city in central Belgium.

Louvain

/ luvɛ̃ /

noun

1. 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) Flemish nameLeuven

Example Sentences

The data backs up Kishore, said disaster epidemiologist Debarati Guha-Sapir of the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, who created a global disaster database.

From Seattle Times

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

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

From Literature

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

Anne G. De Volder, who passed away while this manuscript was in preparation, was at the Neural Rehabilitation Laboratory, Institute of Neuroscience, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.

From Science Daily