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