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Aarhus

Aarhus

1 6.1
A Danish port city in eastern Denmark with many museums and a busy business area
  • proper noun
: Aarhus
  • The discovery of bacteria cord was led by Dr. Nils Risgaard-Petersen of Aarhus University in Denmark.
  • Aarhus University
  • Aarhus, Denmark

Yes, such a thing exists at the Aarhus University.

Examples

  • Jeffrey Hangst of the University of Aarhus in Denmark coordinated the recent experiment.

    Academic text (2002)

  • Between April 1988 and January 1989, 965 women with singleton pregnancies were recruited for a birth cohort study in Aarhus, Denmark (Olsen et al. 1995).

    Academic text (2012)

  • Chickens in a research project at Aarhus University can look forward to new LED lights.

    Blog text (23)

  • I gave a talk that expands on a number of these issues at GOTO Aarhus in 2011.

    Blog text (19)

  • Gail Hurt was nice enough to send me the multi-departmental study done at Aarhus University in Denmark.

    Blog text (18)

  • Susanne Posborg, University of Aarhus, is the most often used Danish translator of Chinese novels and literature.

    Blog text (28)

  • Since 1999, researchers at Aarhus University have retrieved blood and tissue samples from polar bears killed by Inuit hunters in and around Ittoqqortoormiit.

    Academic text (2012)

  • The essence of Danishness came not from the crown, or from the elite classes of Copenhagen and Aarhus, or even from the gentry of the countryside, but from the culture of the peasantry.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Two days later, Hlayhel and Akkari contacted like-minded imams throughout the country and summoned them to Odense, halfway between Aarhus and Copenhagen.

    Academic text (2007)

  • The city of Aarhus is famous for its many cultural events and festivals.

Synonyms

Arhus
vsAarhus
1 7.4

A port city in eastern Jutland, Denmark, with museums and a busy harbor

has identical meaning but uses an alternative spelling commonly used today

Surface Forms

Aarhus main

Etymology

Aarhus comes from old Norse words ár meaning 'river' and ós meaning 'mouth'. It means the 'river mouth', the place where a river meets the sea, and that is why Aarhus grew as a port city.