ALMA-ATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Alma-Ata mean? 

• ALMA-ATA (noun)
  The noun ALMA-ATA has 1 sense:

1. the largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998

  Familiarity information: ALMA-ATA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALMA-ATA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Alma-Ata; Almaty

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Alma-Ata" is a part of...):

Kazak; Kazakh; Kazakhstan; Kazakstan; Republic of Kazakhstan (a landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991)