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LUND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Lund mean?
• LUND (noun)
The noun LUND has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: LUND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city in southern Sweden
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Lund" is a part of...):
Kingdom of Sweden; Sverige; Sweden (a Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula)
Context examples
To illustrate the technology, the researchers at Lund University have successfully filmed how light — a collection of photons — travels a distance corresponding to the thickness of a paper.
(World's Fastest Film Camera, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Dr. Anantha Shekhar and colleagues at Indiana University and Lund University set out to further investigate the role of orexin in panic attacks.
(The Mechanism of Panic Attacks, NIH, US)
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