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Definition of Capital of Utah
1. Noun. The capital and largest city of Utah; located near the Great Salt Lake in north central Utah; world capital of the Mormon Church.
Generic synonyms: State Capital
Group relationships: Beehive State, Mormon State, Ut, Utah
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capital Of Utah
Literary usage of Capital of Utah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Salt Lake, the capital of Utah, is one of the most picturesque and attractive
cities of America. Its streets are 132 feet wide and its population in 1910 ..."
2. Over the Range to the Golden Gate: A Complete Tourist's Guide to Colorado by Stanley Wood, C. E. Hooper (1903)
"The town may almost be classed as a suburb of Salt Lake City, as it is less than
an hour's ride from the capital of Utah Territory. The main industry of the ..."
3. Colton's Common School Geography by Joseph Hutchins Colton (1880)
"Salt Z/ake City, the capital of Utah, is the chief city of the Mormons ; it is
connected by a branch railroad with Ogden, at the junction of the Union ..."
4. Life of Brigham Young: Or, Utah and Her Founders by Edward William Tullidge (1877)
"... and there, for some years, the Legislative Assembly met; but at a later period,
the capital of Utah was removed to Salt Lake City. ..."
5. History of Utah: Comprising Preliminary Chapters on the Previous History of by Orson Ferguson Whitney (1904)
"President Young, Orson Pratt and others were already there and had laid out a
city named Fillmore, designed to be the capital of Utah. ..."
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