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Definition of Antwerp

1. Noun. A busy port and financial center in northern Belgium on the Scheldt river; it has long been a center for the diamond industry and the first stock exchange was opened there in 1460.

Definition of Antwerp

1. Proper noun. A province of Flanders, Belgium. ¹

2. Proper noun. The capital city of the province of Antwerp. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Antwerp

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Modem Antwerp is a finely laid out city with a succession of broad avenues ... Another fine church in Antwerp is that of St James, far more ornate than the ..."

2. Belgium and Holland, Including the Grandduchy of Luxembourg: Handbook for by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1901)
"Antwerp; perhaps pupil of Corn. Ketel at Amsterdam; 1576-1624. ... P., Antwerp; pupil of his brother Corn, de V. and Lambert Lombard at Liège; 1518 (19) -70 ..."

3. Belgium and Holland, Including the Grand-duchy of Luxembourg: Handbook for by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1905)
"Verbruggen, Henri François, S., Antwerp ; son and pupil of the following ... Frans Floris, P., Antwerp; pupil of his brother Corn, de V. and Lambert Lombard ..."

4. Belgium and Holland, Including the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg: Handbook for by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1905)
"Antwerp. Vos, Paul de, Flein. P., Hulst ; brother of Corn, de Vos,pupil of ... Frans Floris, P., Antwerp; pupil of his brother Corn, de V. and Lambert ..."

5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"Though her greatness was short-lived, Antwerp occupies a very important place ... At Antwerp no such jealousy of outsiders existed: any one might settle and ..."

6. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"In 1616 Philips also published with Phalèse at Antwerp his ' Deliciae Sacrae Binis et Ternis Vocibus, cum Basso Continuo ad Organum,' dedicated to the ..."

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