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Other / reference to an address | | Dutch term or phrase: kernstad | Hello all,
What does 'kernstad' refer to, and how is it best put into English? Downtown? 'Core' of the city?
Directeur van het klinisch laboratorium kernstad Antwerpen A.Z. Middelheim . . .
Have also found these references on the internet:
De kernstad (met name de historische binnenstad en de stedelijke wijken) . . .
De kernstad bestaat uit de stadskern en de dichtbebouwde stedelijke wijken. |
| | | historic city centre of Antwerp | Explanation:
If you look on Google you see that kernstad almost exclusively occurs in combination with Antwerp. The English versions of these websites use historic city centre as the translation.
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Note added at 33 mins (2005-05-18 18:03:26 GMT)
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Sorry -it is not exclusively Antwerp but many other Flemish cities that use the word to designate the city centre. |
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  Kate Hudson
Netherlands
Local time: 13:56
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27 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +3 historic city centre of Antwerp
Explanation:
If you look on Google you see that kernstad almost exclusively occurs in combination with Antwerp. The English versions of these websites use historic city centre as the translation.
soka.netpoint.be/zoeken/index.cfm/act/fiche/ org_ID/85fdf41d-c6e4-d19f-314f-21bebaa83a68/layout/antwerpen
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Note added at 33 mins (2005-05-18 18:03:26 GMT)
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Sorry -it is not exclusively Antwerp but many other Flemish cities that use the word to designate the city centre.
| Kate Hudson
Netherlands
Local time: 13:56
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 89
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