ALEPPO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aleppo mean? 

• ALEPPO (noun)
  The noun ALEPPO has 1 sense:

1. a city in northwestern Syria

  Familiarity information: ALEPPO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALEPPO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in northwestern Syria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Alep; Aleppo; Halab

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Aleppo" is a part of...):

Syria; Syrian Arab Republic (an Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization)

 Context examples 

The Crusaders had brought back with them experiences of domestic luxuries, of Damascus carpets and rugs of Aleppo, which made them impatient of the hideous bareness and want of privacy which they found in their ancestral strongholds.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)