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BUCHAREST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bucharest mean? 

BUCHAREST (noun)
  The noun BUCHAREST has 1 sense:

1. national capital and largest city of Romania in southeastern Romaniaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


BUCHAREST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

National capital and largest city of Romania in southeastern Romania

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Bucharest; Bucharesti; Bucuresti; capital of Romania

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

Romania; Roumania; Rumania (a republic in southeastern Europe with a short coastline on the Black Sea)


 Context examples 


We are due to arrive between two and three in the morning; but already, at Bucharest, we are three hours late, so we cannot possibly get in till well after sun-up.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I knew that if anything were to take us to Castle Dracula we should go by Galatz, or at any rate through Bucharest, so I learned the times very carefully.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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