Definitions for Damascus

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Damascus Da·mas·cus

Spelling: [duh-mas-kuh s]

IPA: /dəˈmæs kəs/

Damascus is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 187 anagrams from letters in Damascus (aacdmssu).

Definitions for Damascus

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Syria, in the SW part: reputed to be the oldest continuously existing city in the world.
2. Official name Syrian Arab Republic. a republic in SW Asia at the E end of the Mediterranean. 71,227 sq. mi. (184,478 sq. km). Capital: Damascus.
3. a territory mandated to France in 1922, including the present republics of Syria and Lebanon (Latakia and Jebel ed Druz were incorporated into Syria 1942): the French mandatory powers were nominally terminated as of January 1, 1944.
4. an ancient country in W Asia, including the present Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and adjacent areas: a part of the Roman Empire 64 b.c.–a.d.

Examples for Damascus

Chérif was arrested in Paris in January 2005 as he was about to board a plane to Damascus along with a man named Thamer Bouchnak.

I jokingly asked him how he got the award: “Did you dress up like Lady Gaga in Damascus?”

They are like the sweetmeats my father brought with him once from Damascus.

And the valley hosts a hodgepodge of homegrown Syrian-American groups—some with close ties to the government in Damascus.

Her arrest came at a checkpoint in Damascus in June 2013, when soldiers spotted an audio recorder in her bag.

I found it in great abundance in Stanley's woods, near Damascus, Ohio.

Rowaida Yousef, as she calls herself, used to be a math teacher and citizen journalist in Damascus.

The like miseries were undergone by those Jews that were the inhabitants of Damascus.

And Damascus is the very 309 hive of turbans, green and otherwise.

Arriving in Damascus they both stay at the same Hotel: mischance second.