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Edinburgh

[ ed-n-bur-uh, -buhr-uhor, especially British, -bruh ]

noun

  1. Duke of. Philip ( def 4 ).
  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. City of
    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)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Edinburgh

2

/ -brə; ˈɛdɪnbərə /

noun

  1. Edinburgh, Duke of1921MBritishPOLITICS: royal family member Duke of, title of Prince Philip Mountbatten. born 1921, husband of Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Edinburgh

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

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.
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Helen and Phil lived with their baby son, sleeping at the hospital, as well as staying with family in Edinburgh and occasionally in a nearby hotel.

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University of Edinburgh researchers examined dozens of dinosaur footprints at Prince Charles's Point on the island's Trotternish Peninsula.

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The two women have kept in touch since that first meeting, with Ms Gosling attending a half-marathon in Edinburgh to cheer on Ms Hutton.

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He was filming in Edinburgh on Scotland's hottest day when the unusually high temperature spurred him into embarking on a project on the climate crisis.

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A high school photography teacher and stand-up comedian from New York, he first got involved with WikiPortraits while he was performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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