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Definition of Anvers
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.
Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center, Port
Group relationships: Belgique, Belgium, Kingdom Of Belgium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anvers
Literary usage of Anvers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present by Joseph Sabin, Wilberforce Eames, Bibliographical Society of America, Robert William Glenroie Vail (1873)
"D'Anvers. Answer to the Considerations occasioned by the Craftsman upon the Excise
... 18510 D'Anvers. French Counsels Destructive to Great Britain, ..."
2. The Craftsman by Nicholas Amhurst, Henry St. John Bolingbroke (1737)
"But I beg Pardon, Mr. D'Anvers, for detaining you fo long from more Important
... To CALEB D'AN'VERS, Efq; Mr.D'Anvers, - - - SI was ..."
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