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BEIRUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Beirut mean? 

BEIRUT (noun)
  The noun BEIRUT has 1 sense:

1. capital and largest city of Lebanon; located in western Lebanon on the Mediterraneanplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


BEIRUT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital and largest city of Lebanon; located in western Lebanon on the Mediterranean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Bayrut; Beirut; capital of Lebanon

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

Lebanese Republic; Lebanon (an Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean)


 Context examples 


The alternative explanation to the so-called ‘Planet Nine’ hypothesis, put forward by researchers at the University of Cambridge and the American University of Beirut, proposes a disc made up of small icy bodies with a combined mass as much as ten times that of Earth.

(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)



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