Belgrade
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French Belgrade, from Medieval Latin Belgradum and Belogradum, ultimately from South Slavic forms of Proto-Slavic *bělъ (“white”) and *gȏrdъ (“fortress, city”), after the white walls of its medieval fortress. Doublet of Beograd, Berat, and Belgorod.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -eɪd
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛlɡɹeɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Belgrade
- The capital city of Serbia; former capital of Yugoslavia; former capital of Serbia and Montenegro.
- (metonymically, politics) The Serbian or Yugoslav government.
- 2007, John Laughland, chapter 8, in Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milošević and the Corruption of International Justice, London: Pluto Press, →ISBN, page 170:
- Prosecution witness Osman Selak claimed that the Bosnian Serb army was under the de facto control of Belgrade, as the Prosecution alleged, but under cross-examination could not produce a single example of an order issued by the Yugoslav army to the Bosnian Serb army.
Synonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]capital of Serbia
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[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Belgrade f
- Belgrade (the capital city of Serbia)
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