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Definition of Bagdad
1. Noun. Capital and largest city of Iraq; located on the Tigris River. "Baghdad is one of the great cities of the Muslim world"
Generic synonyms: National Capital
Group relationships: Al-iraq, Irak, Iraq, Republic Of Iraq
Definition of Bagdad
1. Proper noun. (alternative spelling of Baghdad) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bagdad
Literary usage of Bagdad
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"The Bagdad Railway extension. In one sense an extension of the Anatolian Railway,
properly began at Konia and thence ran eastward to Adana. Aleppo. ..."
2. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"The Bagdad Railway extension, in one sense an extension of the Anatolian Railway,
properly began at Konia and thence ran eastward to Adana, Aleppo, Nisibin, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840)
"TH£ FALL OF Bagdad. " Thou too art Tallón, Bagdad ! City of Peace, Thnn too hast
had thy day ! Aod loathsome Ignorance, and brute Servitude, ..."
4. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1919)
"Bagdad Four weeks before the British had opened the campaign in Europe with the
victory ... On March nth General Maude's victorious troops entered Bagdad, ..."
5. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"The inhabitants of Bagdad feed them together, ' and separate then the coveys,
... These dove- messengers are continually under way from and to Bagdad and ..."
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