KAMPALA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kampala mean? 

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

1. the capital and largest city of Uganda on the north shore of Lake Victoria

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KAMPALA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Uganda on the north shore of Lake Victoria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Uganda; Kampala

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

Buganda (a state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom)

 Context examples 

A team at the University of California, San Francisco, led by Dr. Grant Dorsey and colleagues in Kampala, Uganda, compared drugs to prevent infant malaria in areas with a high risk year round and high rates of drug resistance.

(Drug Prevents Malaria in High-Risk Region, NIH)