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palmyra
/pælˈmaɪ.ɹə/
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What does palmyra mean?
noun
- A palm (Borassus flabellifer) with straight black upright trunk and palmate leaves, whose wood, fruit, and roots can be used for many purposes.
proper noun
- An ancient city, an oasis in the Syrian Desert, in present-day central Syria, recorded historically from around 2000 BCE, subsequently subject to various empires and destroyed in 273 CE and again in 1400, when it was reduced to a village.
- A city, the county seat of Marion County, Missouri, United States.
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proper noun
- A town and village therein, in Wayne County, New York, United States.
- A census-designated place, the county seat of Fluvanna County, Virginia, United States.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Palmyra Township.
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IPA pronunciation
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It is even said that she was crowned Queen of the East at Palmyra by fifty thousand Arabs.
Thebes, and Troy, and Persepolis, and Palmyra have vanished from the face of the earth.
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On January 20th, Burton's remains were taken to England by the steamer "Palmyra."
A slave came flying from Palmyra, the county-seat, a few miles back, and was about to escape in a canoe to Illinois and freedom in the dull twilight of the approaching dawn, when the town constable seized him.
The spectator is apt to imagine that nature had formerly suffered some violent convulsion; and that these are the dismembered remains of the dreadful shock; the ruins, not of Persepolis or Palmyra, but of the world!