Ghent
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4.7
- proper noun
- Currently, she is working as a PhD student at Ghent University on a project that focuses on atypical climate change fiction.
- Ghent University
- Ghent, Belgium
- Treaty of Ghent
Examples
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The novel alludes to the students' revolt of May 1968 in Paris and the Ghent dock strike of 1972.
Fiction book (1994) -
I took the train from Brussels to Ghent and walked from the station.
Fiction book (1996) -
The city should be sensitive to Ghent property owners who are concerned about the discounted sale.
Blog text (24) -
This is the Ghent Altarpiece.
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Ethics clearance was given by the Ethiopian Science and Technology Commission and by Ghent University.
Academic text (2003) -
The project culminated in the International Conference on New Musical Notation, which was held in Ghent, Belgium, in 1974.
Academic text (1997) -
The Belgian studies were supported by a PhD bursary from the Special Research Fund of Ghent University.
Academic text (2007) -
Jan painted it in Ghent, which is in Belgium but was called Flanders then and spelled Vlaanderen.
Fiction book (1996) -
The University of Ghent possesses an ethnographic collection of approximately 4,000 items from Africa, Oceania, America, and Asia.
Academic text (2008) -
I took the train from Brussels to Ghent and walked from the station.
Synonyms
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6.3
A city in northwest Belgium with medieval buildings and a history of cloth making
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8.0
A French name for the city of Ghent in Belgium
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ghent comes from the old name Ganda, which means 'where rivers meet'. Because the city sits where two rivers join, it became an important port and place for trade.