Sorbonne

[ sawr-bon, -buhn; French sawr-bawn ]

noun

1. the seat of the faculties of arts and letters of the University of Paris.
2. a theological college founded in Paris in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon, suppressed in 1792, and ceasing to exist about 1850.

Sorbonne

/ sɔrbɔn /

noun

1. the Sorbonne
   a part of the University of Paris containing the faculties of science and literature: founded in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon as a theological college; given to the university in 1808

Example Sentences

“This is not the first time such sentiments are running high in Iran,” said Mojitaba Najafi, a Paris-based researcher and lecturer at Sorbonne University.

From Los Angeles Times

After serving in the army during the Vietnam War, he moved to Saudi Arabia where he worked as an English teacher, before gaining a master's degree in French at the Sorbonne in 1971.

From BBC

Step one was the founding congress of the International Olympic Committee, chaired by the French aristocrat Pierre de Coubertin at Sorbonne university in June 1894.

From BBC

For more than a century, swimming in the river has been prohibited — although, as Sorbonne University environmental historian Laurence Lestel told the BBC this year, the ban was originally put in place because of navigational hazards, not pollution.

From Los Angeles Times

They moved to Paris, where he studied medicine and she earned a psychology degree from the Sorbonne.

From Los Angeles Times