Kuwait City
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3.2
- proper noun
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Ciudad de Kuwait
- Many tourists visit Kuwait City to experience its rich culture and history.
- embassies in Kuwait City
- airport in Kuwait City
- hotels in Kuwait City
Examples
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On the outskirts of Kuwait City to the north, a young Iraqi technician was alerted by a pulsing light on the console he was monitoring in the commandeered apartment on top of a residential building.
Fiction book (1994) -
Within ten days of the invasion, the disciplined and professional soldiers of the Iraqi Republican Guard had been withdrawn from Kuwait City, to be replaced by the conscript rabble of the Popular Army.
Fiction book (1994) -
Jeep ran out of gas just outside Kuwait City.
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Mike Martin plodded on through the night toward Kuwait City, invisible in robes he had not worn for almost two weeks.
Fiction book (1994) -
At his third meeting with his band of volunteers, the Bedou drove them far out into the desert to a spot west of Kuwait City and south of Jahra where they could be alone.
Fiction book (1994) -
One was a fixed station, mounted on the roof of a tall building in the district of Ardiya, on the extreme southern outskirts of Kuwait City.
Fiction book (1994) -
On Sunday, Kuwaiti police fired stun grenades, tear gas, and smoke bombs at thousands of protesters blocking a major road south of the capital of Kuwait City.
Blog text (25) -
By afternoon he had finished, and he drove his battered pickup truck out to the camel farm beyond Sulaibiya, where the last outposts of Kuwait City ran out and the desert began.
Fiction book (1994) -
As usual, driving through Kuwait City, he had tried to avoid the major roads where roadblocks were likely to be set up, but crossing any of the six Ring Roads that envelop Kuwait City in a series of concentric bands could only be done at a major junction.
Fiction book (1994) -
The American Embassy is located in Kuwait City, the capital of Kuwait.
Synonyms
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3.4
The capital city and main port of Kuwait on the Persian Gulf
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'Kuwait' (the country/proper name) + 'city' (an urban area) yields 'the city of Kuwait', which a learner who knows both words will understand as the principal/urban center. This is a common, cross-linguistically transparent naming pattern for place names, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the intended referent.
Etymology
Kuwait City gets its name from Kuwait, an Arabic word that means 'small fort'. Long ago a little fort by the sea protected fishermen and traders and the place grew into the country's main town and port, so the name stayed.