Leiden meaning

līd'n
A city of southwest Netherlands northeast of The Hague. Dating from Roman times, Leiden has had an important textile industry since the 1500s. Its university, founded in 1575, was a noted center for the study of theology, science, and medicine in the 1600s and 1700s.
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City in W Netherlands.
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A city in South Holland on the Old Rhine, seat of a famous Dutch university.
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Origin of leiden

  • From Latin Lugdunum Batavorum (although the modern site is that of Roman Matilo, confused with modern Katwijk)
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Leiden Sentence Examples

  • For about a year he studied at Leiden, paying special attention to philosophy and Greek.

  • In the following year he was appointed successor to the celebrated Perizonius, who had held the chair of history, Greek language and eloquence at Leiden.

  • Bosscha, Het Leven van Willem den Tweede, Koning der Nederlanden, 1793-1849 (Amsterdam, 1852); P. Blok, Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche Volk (Leiden, 1908).

  • Among these towns were Franeker in Friesland, Harderwyk, Deventer, Utrecht, Leiden, Amersfoort, Amsterdam, Leeuwarden in Friesland.

  • In 1647 the difficulties that had arisen at Utrecht were repeated on a smaller scale at Leiden.

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