Lexic.us

Definition of Kabul

1. Noun. The capital and largest city of Afghanistan; located in eastern Afghanistan.

Definition of Kabul

1. Proper noun. The capital of Afghanistan. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kabul

Literary usage of Kabul

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

1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"FORD O' kabul RIVER kabul town's by kabul river— Blow the bugle, draw the sword— There I lef my mate for ever, Wet an' drippin' by the ford. ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1879)
"The Upper kabul Basin is bounded on the north by the Hindu Kush ... Within this mountain-girt region all the drainage converges to the kabul Eiver, ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"Nott naturally selected the way by Ghazni and kabul as the route he would follow, ... It now became a race for kabul between Nott and Pollock. ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The Afghans themselves make a broad distinction between kabul, meaning thereby the whole basin of the kabul river, and the rest of their country, ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"The Afghans themselves makea broad distinction between kabul, meaning thereby the whole basin of the kabul river, and the rest of their country, ..."

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