DAMASCUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Damascus mean? 

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

1. an ancient city (widely regarded as the world's oldest) and present capital and largest city of Syria; according to the New Testament, the Apostle Paul (then known as Saul) underwent a dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAMASCUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ancient city (widely regarded as the world's oldest) and present capital and largest city of Syria; according to the New Testament, the Apostle Paul (then known as Saul) underwent a dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Syria; Damascus; Dimash

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Meronyms (members of "Damascus"):

Damascene (a native or inhabitant of Damascus)

Holonyms ("Damascus" 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 

There is still the city of Constantine to be taken, and war to be waged against the Soldan of Damascus.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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)