Definition of Maracaibo

1. Noun. A port city in northwestern Venezuela; a major oil center.

Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center, Port
Group relationships: Republic Of Venezuela, Venezuela

Definition of Maracaibo

1. Proper noun. A city in the northwest of Venezuela. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maracaibo

Maori
Maoriland
Maorilander
Maoris
Maple Leaf
Mappila
Mappilas
Mapuche
Mapudungun
Mapundungun
Maputo
Maquis
Maquisard
Mar.
Mara
Maracaibo (current term)
Maracan language
Maracay
Maraco
Maradonaesque
Maragoli
Marah
Maranhão
Maranon's sign
Maranon's syndrome
Marans
Maranta arundinaceae
Marantaceae
Marasmius
Marasmius oreades

Literary usage of Maracaibo

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

1. Venezuela, a Commercial and Industrial Handbook: A Commercial and Industrial by United States Dept. of Commerce, Purl Lord Bell (1922)
"On account of the lack of exchange facilities in the interior—the cost of transfer of funds from a given point to Maracaibo or vice versa often being as ..."

2. Venezuela, a Commercial and Industrial Handbook: A Commercial and Industrial by United States Dept. of Commerce, Purl Lord Bell (1922)
"On account of the lack of exchange facilities in the interior—the cost of transfer of funds from a given point to Maracaibo or vice versa often being as ..."

3. Central and South America by Augustus Henry Keane, Clements Robert Markham (1901)
"Hydrography—Lake Maracaibo On the rock-bound north coast there is no room for the development of fluvial basins. Hence between the Goajira Peninsula and the ..."

4. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1897)
"-ii/-!.i , Maracaibo The British government lamented these cruel aggressions upon people whose only offence was that of having been born Spaniards, ..."

5. Colombia: Being a Geographical, Statistical, Agricultural, Commercial, and by Alexander Walker (1822)
"It is bounded, on the west, by Santa Marta in New Grenada; on the east, by Coro and Venezuela; on the north, by Santa Marta and the Gulf of Maracaibo ; and ..."

6. Recollections of a Service of Three Years During the War-of-extermination in by Simón Bolívar (1828)
"... plans an expedition against Maracaibo—Vacillation in his determinations— Author ordered on a service—Ordered to halt in an unhealthy situation—Joins the ..."

7. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and by Washington Irving (1849)
"PENETRATES TO Maracaibo. His crew being refreshed and the wounded sufficiently recovered, Ojeda made sail, and touched at the island of Curazao, which, ..."

8. A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Bricks, Tiles, Terra-cotta, Etc. by Charles Thomas Davis (1884)
"There are a number of brick-kilns around Maracaibo for the manufacture of bricks and tiles. Maracaibo is the capital of the sovereign State of Zulia, ..."

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