Bucharest

[boo-kuh-rest, byoo-]

noun

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

Bucharest

/ ˌbjuː-, ˌbuːkəˈrɛst /

noun

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

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

"The three works now exhibited in Bucharest were not documented, photographed, or shown during the artist's lifetime," said the art historian and curator, who co-authored the American Association of Museums guide to provenance research.

From BBC

It was a striking cameo which lays down the gauntlet to Thelin to pick him from the start in Bucharest next week.

From BBC

The first plane to depart from the airport after its reopening was a Wizz Air flight to Bucharest, Romania, which had been scheduled to leave Birmingham at 14:10.

From BBC

Iliescu had been diagnosed with lung cancer and hospitalised in early June in Romania's capital, Bucharest.

From BBC

The premiere in 1936 in Paris was a triumph, but the work remained inexplicably little seen outside of Bucharest, where it was performed, not to the composer’s liking, in Romanian.

From Los Angeles Times