Definition of Dahomey

1. Noun. A country on western coast of Africa; formerly under French control.

Exact synonyms: Benin, Republic Of Benin
Generic synonyms: African Country, African Nation
Terms within: Capital Of Benin, Porto Novo, Cotonou, Niger, Niger River
Group relationships: Africa
Member holonyms: Beninese, Ewe

Definition of Dahomey

1. Proper noun. (historical) A former country in Africa, the former name of Benin ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dahomey

Dagestan
Dagestani
Dagestanis
Daghestan
Dagmar
Dagnini
Dagon
Daguerre
Dahlesque
Dahlia
Dahlia pinnata
Dahlian
Dahlik
Dahomean
Dahomeans
Dahomey (current term)
Dahomeyan
Dahomeyans
Dai
Dail
Dail Eireann
Daimler
Dairen
Daisy
Daisy Dukes
Daivadnya brahmin
Daivajna
Dakar
Dakasian
Dakin

Literary usage of Dahomey

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"1890; EF Forbes, Dahomey and thé ... La France au Dahomey, Paris, 1895; E. Foà, Le Dahomey, ib. 1895 (on history, geography, customs, etc. ..."

2. Curiosities of Savage Life by James Greenwood (1864)
"I allude to the King of Dahomey, who, as a trafficker in human beings, dead and alive, is an ulcer on the face of the world; a man whose guilt is so black ..."

3. Universal Geography: Or A Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1827)
"... of of Dahomey, who by his conquests raised himself from the rank of a | Dahomey. small proprietor, to that of a great African monarch. ..."

4. Battles of the Nineteenth Century by Archibald Forbes (1896)
"In 1890 there was a short war be- Behanzin, king of Dahomey, and the ; but the collapse of his army on its first to capture Porto Novo led him to patch eaty ..."

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