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DACCA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dacca mean? 

DACCA (noun)
  The noun DACCA has 1 sense:

1. the capital and largest city of Bangladeshplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


DACCA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Bangladesh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Bangladesh; Dacca; Dhaka

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

Bangla Desh; Bangladesh; East Pakistan; People's Republic of Bangladesh (a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971. In local language, 'Bangladesh' means Land of the Bengalis ('Bangla' means Bengali, 'desh' means land or country))


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