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PORT-AU-PRINCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Port-au-Prince mean? 

PORT-AU-PRINCE (noun)
  The noun PORT-AU-PRINCE has 1 sense:

1. the capital and largest city of Haitiplay

  Familiarity information: PORT-AU-PRINCE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PORT-AU-PRINCE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Haiti

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Haitian capital; Port-au-Prince

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Holonyms ("Port-au-Prince" is a part of...):

Haiti; Republic of Haiti (a republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola; achieved independence from France in 1804; the poorest and most illiterate nation in the western hemisphere)


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