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Sorbonne

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A celebrated house founded in the University of Paris about 1250 by Robert de Sorbon, chaplain and confessor of Louis IX.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A building in Paris that houses several universities and schools
  • proper noun The historic University of Paris that used to be located there

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a university in Paris; intellectual center of France

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Examples

  • The society of the Sorbonne corresponded exactly to a college at one of our universities, and will be distinguished by the careful reader from the faculty of theology in the university, which was usually, but not always, composed of _docteurs de Sorbonne_.

    Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot John Morley 1880

  • "Sorbonne" is the common name for the University of which city?

    The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference 2009

  • I’m not really sure that this french transactivation of the talk in Sorbonne presents any interest here, I mean about smart mobs and in an english blog.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Another Blog of My Sorbonne Talk 2003

  • The Sorbonne was the bucolic spot where I adored thee from eve till morn.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • The foundations for the famous college of theology which was later known as the Sorbonne were laid in Paris about the year 1257 Its head, Master Robert de Sorbon, a learned canon and doctor, was the King's friend and sometimes his confessor.

    SAINT LOUIS, CONFESSOR, KING OF FRANCE de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • The foundations for the famous college of theology which was later known as the Sorbonne were laid in Paris about the year 1257 Its head, Master Robert de Sorbon, a learned canon and doctor, was the King's friend and sometimes his confessor.

    Archive 2008-08-24 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • First, I don't know why anglophones tend to think that the Sorbonne is the pinnacle of French education, when it is a gritty urban school resembling Wayne State University but much less attractive more than anything else.

    It's the University of Wisconsin beer class with beer tastings! Ann Althouse 2008

  • The Sorbonne will be the Stalingrad of the Sorbonne

    1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

  • Sorbonne, which is the highest purely intellectual reward Europe can confer on any man.

    Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Louis Raemaekers 1912

  • The Sorbonne was the Theological College of Paris; at this time it was the headquarters of the extreme Leaguers and the Sixteen.

    In Kings' Byways Stanley John Weyman 1891

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