leiden

[US]/'laidən/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.Leiden (city in the western Netherlands);Leiden (name of a university)
Word Forms
Pluralleidens

Real-world Examples

Paul Behrens, an environmental scientist at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Source: Science in 60 Seconds May 2018 Collection

Lead researcher Alexander Bohn of Leiden University described the star as very young and much like our own sun.

Source: VOA Special July 2020 Collection

Ewine van Dishoeck is a professor of molecular astrophysics at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Source: Scientific 60 Seconds - Scientific American October 2021 Compilation

The Puritans made their home in a city called Leiden in the western part of Holland.

Source: 2016 English Cafe

You can see this plunge into the materials of his craft in this little portrait of himself, done in his studio in Leiden in his twenties.

Source: The Power of Art - Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Let's hear from psychologist Wilco Van Dijk from the University of Leiden, who's been talking about this on the BBC Radio 4 programme, All in the Mind.

Source: 6 Minute English

One team at Leiden University in the Netherlands is trying to build an artificial bacterium from scratch in hopes it can be tweaked to manufacture a new antibiotic.

Source: Newsweek

But he hadn't. He'd grown up in Leiden, a textiles and university town about 25 miles southwest of Amsterdam, packed with piety, learning and profit from the cloth trade.

Source: The Power of Art - Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Intagliata: Co-author Amanda Henry of Leiden University in the Netherlands explained that, rather than cooked potatoes and raw salads -- they needed something with no taste or smell.

Source: Science 60 Seconds - Scientific American September 2022 Collection

Some of the Puritans in Leiden decided they were going to go back to England even though it was not as religiously free as it was in the Netherlands.

Source: 2016 English Cafe

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