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Definition of Entebbe
1. Noun. A town in southern Uganda on Lake Victoria; site of an international airport (where in 1976 Israeli commandos rescued hostages held aboard a plane by Palestinian hijackers).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entebbe
Literary usage of Entebbe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eighteen Years in Uganda & East Africa by Alfred Tucker (1908)
"It only remained to secure Selim Bey and the Sudanese at entebbe eighteen miles
away on the Lake shore. On Monday, the 19th, whilst waiting for the arrival ..."
2. Uganda and Its Peoples: Notes on the Protectorate of Uganda, Especially the by James Frederick Cunningham (1905)
"189 entebbe Bay . . . . . . . . . . . .191 Entrance to entebbe Bay ..........
192 Upper End of entebbe Bay . . -193 View from Police Hill, looking towards ..."
3. Through the Heart of Africa by Frank Hulme Melland, Edward H. Cholmeley (1912)
"X RETURN TO entebbe AND BY MOTOR TO ... the lake on the ss Clement Hill—The
entebbe Customs—Botanical Gardens—Preparations for journey north—The golf-links— ..."
4. The Uganda Protectorate: An Attempt to Give Some Description of the Physical by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1902)
"... entebbe and so anxious to meet one half-way in developing their country, that
within a week of having first mentioned the matter to the Baganda chiefs ..."
5. The Culture of Violence by Kumar Rupesinghe (1994)
"entebbe: Government Printer. . 1970. Ministry of Planning and Economic ...
Budget Speech 1991/92 by Dr CWCB Kiyonga, Minister of Finance. entebbe ..."
6. Report Upon the Basin of the Upper Nile: With Proposals for the Improvement by C. E. Dupuis (1904)
"Thus an unusually high level was recorded at entebbe only. ... These variations
of the entebbe gauge extend over several months so that they cannot be ..."
7. Some African Highways: A Journey of Two American Women to Uganda and the by Caroline Kirkland (1908)
"entebbe lies almost at the place where the equator crosses the northwest corner
of Lake Victoria in the British Protectorate of Uganda, a little east of ..."
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