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DACCA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Dacca mean?
• DACCA (noun)
The noun DACCA has 1 sense:
1. the capital and largest city of Bangladesh
Familiarity information: DACCA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The capital and largest city of Bangladesh
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
capital of Bangladesh; Dacca; Dhaka
Instance hypernyms:
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Holonyms ("Dacca" is a part of...):
Bangla Desh; Bangladesh; East Pakistan; People's Republic of Bangladesh (a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971. In local language, 'Bangladesh' means Land of the Bengalis ('Bangla' means Bengali, 'desh' means land or country))
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