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PRAGUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Prague mean? 

PRAGUE (noun)
  The noun PRAGUE has 1 sense:

1. the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic in the western part of the country; a cultural and commercial center since the 14th centuryplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PRAGUE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of the Czech Republic in the western part of the country; a cultural and commercial center since the 14th century

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Czech capital; Prag; Prague; Praha

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

Czech Republic (a landlocked republic in central Europe; separated from Slovakia in 1993)


 Context examples 


I have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting you.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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