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ALMATY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Almaty mean?
• ALMATY (noun)
The noun ALMATY has 1 sense:
1. the largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998
Familiarity information: ALMATY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Alma-Ata; Almaty
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Almaty" is a part of...):
Kazak; Kazakh; Kazakhstan; Kazakstan; Republic of Kazakhstan (a landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991)
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