University of Paris
- proper noun
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Universidad de París
- The University of Paris was a key intellectual center in Europe until its division in 1970.
- philosophy at the University of Paris
Examples
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After the council, he studied at the University of Paris during the years from circa 1248 to 1252, when Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure were beginning their careers there as professors.
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Jean Gerson (1363-1429), chancellor of the University of Paris, an authority on theological and mystical questions and a poet, is a great pastoral leader whose writings the young Luther valued.
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The first university was the University of Paris, which started in the 12th century.
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Oxford University was founded later by the English students who attended the University of Paris.
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Specific records of fundraising activities for academic institutions have been recorded as early as 1158 at the University of Paris.
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He studied theology at the University of Paris, where he received his doctorate in 1522.
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His successor, the Dominican Peter of Tarantaise, an earlier colleague of Aquinas at the University of Paris, became Innocent V.
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Julian Friedland is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy from the University of Paris at Sorbonne and teaches philosophy at Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colorado.
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Yet, the agreement between our department and the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense includes only the exchanging of faculty staff, not students.
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Equally ancient is the fact that Paris, in the words of R. W. Southern, was "the Scholastic metropolis of northern Europe," (n1) a fact signaled by the rise of the University of Paris in the last decades of the twelfth century.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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A historic university in Paris known as a center for learning and culture
A historic university in Paris known for arts and culture
An old university in Paris that was a main center of learning in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Surface Forms
Morphology
university + of + Paris
The meaning ('a university located in Paris') is directly and compositionally derivable from the constituents 'university' + 'of' + 'Paris' — it names an institution situated in Paris. This place-name/genitive pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English noun + of + location structure, so a B1 learner who knows the component words will readily understand it.
Etymology
University of Paris began in the Middle Ages when groups of teachers and students met near the cathedral of Notre Dame and formed a learning community called a 'university'. That clear image of people studying together explains why the name came to mean a famous center of learning in Paris.