BAGHDAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Baghdad mean? 

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

1. capital and largest city of Iraq; located on the Tigris River

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAGHDAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital and largest city of Iraq; located on the Tigris River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Bagdad; Baghdad; capital of Iraq

Context example:

Baghdad is one of the great cities of the Muslim world

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

Al-Iraq; Irak; Iraq; Republic of Iraq (a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq)

 Context examples 

Whatever it was, he was ready for it, whether it were to hold the lists in the court of the King of Tartary, to carry a cartel to the Sultan of Baghdad, or to serve a term against the wild heathen of Prussia.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)