Edinburgh

[ed-n-bur-uh, -buhr-uh, -bruh]

noun

1. Duke of. Philip.

2. a city in and the capital of Scotland, in the SE part: administrative center of the Lothian region.

Edinburgh

¹

/ -brə, ˈɛdɪnbərə /

noun

1. the capital of Scotland and seat of the Scottish Parliament (from 1999), in City of Edinburgh council area on the S side of the Firth of Forth: became the capital in the 15th century; castle; three universities (including University of Edinburgh, 1583); commercial and cultural centre, noted for its annual festival. Pop: 430 082 (2001)

2. a council area in central Scotland, created from part of Lothian region in 1996. Pop: 448 370 (2003 est). Area: 262 sq km (101 sq miles)

Edinburgh

²

/ -brə, ˈɛdɪnbərə /

noun

1. Duke of, title of Prince Philip Mountbatten. born 1921, husband of Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Edinburgh

1. Capital of Scotland, located in the Lothian region in the southeastern part; Scotland's banking and administrative center.

The University of Edinburgh, which was founded in the sixteenth century, is noted for its faculties of divinity, law, medicine, music, and the arts.

As a cultural center, Edinburgh was especially prominent in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith, the authors Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott, and the scientist James Hutton were active.

Example Sentences

Murray has been the MP for Edinburgh South since 2010 and was made Scottish secretary when Labour returned to power in July last year.

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They'll be joined by sisters from Edinburgh and a mother and daughter-in-law duo from Yorkshire.

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Its services connect most of the UK's biggest cities including Birmingham, Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle and Manchester.

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At a speech in Edinburgh, the first minister encouraged Scots to "come together and demand a say over our future".

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Despite more than four years of outpatient treatment at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh and the local Macmillan centre in the Borders, Mr Owen's cancer had continued to spread.

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