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damascus
/dəˈmæskəs/
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What does damascus mean?
noun
- Ellipsis of Damascus steel.
proper noun
- The capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE.
- The Syrian government.
More meanings (10)
proper noun
- A governorate in Syria.
- A town in Faulkner County and Van Buren County, Arkansas.
- A minor city in Early County, Georgia.
- A census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland.
- A census-designated place in Mahoning County and Columbiana County, Ohio.
- A census-designated place in Clackamas County, Oregon.
- A township and village therein, in Wayne County, Pennsylvania.
- A town in Washington County, Virginia.
- A rural community in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
- A rural locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.
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IPA pronunciation
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When Richard lay ill of a fever, Saladin sent him fresh fruits from Damascus, and snow from the mountain-tops.
Burton had scarcely got settled in Damascus before he expressed his intention of visiting the historic Tadmor in the desert.
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And beside the city of Damascus is another great river that comes from the hills of Liban, which men call Abbana.
Wild as that, the nighest woodland of a deserted home in England, but without its sweet sadness, is the sumptuous garden of Damascus.
Kay says that he had reported to him, on "pretty good" authority, an instance of a Damascus Jewess who became a grandmother at twenty-one years.