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TIFLIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Tiflis mean?
• TIFLIS (noun)
The noun TIFLIS has 1 sense:
1. the capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river
Familiarity information: TIFLIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
capital of Georgia; Tbilisi; Tiflis
Instance hypernyms:
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Holonyms ("Tiflis" is a part of...):
Georgia; Sakartvelo (a republic in Asia Minor on the Black Sea separated from Russia by the Caucasus mountains; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991)
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