Turin
pronunciation
How to pronounce Turin in British English:
UK [tjuˈrin]
How to pronounce Turin in American English:
US [ˈtʊrɪn, ˈtjʊr-]
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- Noun:
- capital city of the Piemonte region of northwestern Italy
Word Origin
- Turin
- city in northern Italy, Italian Torino, Roman Augusta Taurinorum, probably from the Taurini, a Ligurian people who had a capital there, the name perhaps from Celtic *tauro "mountain" or *tur "water," but long interpreted by folk etymology as from Latin taurus "bull."
Example
- 1. Rivarolo canavese nestles in the shadow of the alps north of turin .
- 2. The findings are inconsistent with a shape-only model for smell , says turin .
- 3. Her father was a builder from a town on the outskirts of turin .
- 4. The winter olympics in turin is the site of brutal combat , dramatic rivalries and tests of cunning and will .
- 5. Using computer scans she found that the face on the turin shroud and a self portrait of leonardo da vinci share the same dimensions .