Beirut
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- proper noun
- /beɪˈruːt/
- We begin walking and losing our way in a Beirut that never ends and leads nowhere.
- downtown Beirut
- University of Beirut
- embassy in Beirut
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Watch on YouTubeTaylor ends up meeting with Carol Gussen, Carlos Gussen's wife, in Beirut, in Lebanon.
- Taylor ends up meeting with Carol Gussen, Carlos Gussen's wife, in Beirut, in Lebanon.
- I just, you know, you, you know, I don't have a man on the ground in Beirut, right?
- And that's why that's why the first leg of this trip slowly was sent to Beirut.
- You can tell who's from who's, which Armenians are from Iran, which Armenians are from Beirut.
- Now the land owners in Damascus or Beirut sold their holdings to Jewish settlers for exorbitant prices.
- And it was about basically, it was called Fasetine because it was about situation in, in Lebanon, in Beirut, Lebanon.
- So I will look for, you know, we already saw it with the the riots in France and Champs Lizet and Hong Kong and Santiago, Chile and Beirut.
- And as a kid, they threw me on the worst wing regarding Beirut, met some of the best people in me life there, you know what I mean?
Examples
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From Boston to Beirut, we stand as one.
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I was thinking of Beirut and our three years there before your mother was born.
Fiction book (1997) -
Did you always live in Beirut before you came to live with us?
Fiction book (1997) -
No, we had to leave Beirut just before your mother was born.
Fiction book (1997) -
Are you staying long in Beirut?
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When our first detachments arrived, the scene in the streets of Beirut was horrible.
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The emperor then chose Beirut as a beachhead for Roman domination of the East.
Academic text (2011) -
He studied at the Academy Ibanez de Bouzar in Beirut, and he then went on to study in Paris.
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I've been to Beirut.
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When I visited Lebanon, I spent a week exploring Beirut, the capital city.
Synonyms
A city on the Mediterranean coast that is Lebanon's capital and largest city
Surface Forms
Etymology
Beirut comes from an old Semitic word be'er or Be'erot meaning 'wells' or 'wells of water'. So the name points to the springs and water sources that helped the city grow by the coast.