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Adelaide

Adelaide

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The capital city of South Australia on the southern coast
  • proper noun
: Adelaida
  • Stay with my gran in Adelaide, get out of the heat.
  • Adelaide, Australia
  • Adelaide University
  • Adelaide, South Australia

And I went and visited their shop in Adelaide and it was spectacular.

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Examples

  • You're not going back to Adelaide, are you?

  • Well I will say there are still tickets available to the Adelaide show in Australia and that's in a couple of weeks.

  • Please welcome to A Late Show from Adelaide, Australia.

  • OK, so for three days, Adelaide is an hour and a half flight from Melbourne.

  • We spent a night in Beijing and went on to Adelaide the following day.

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  • And I went and visited their shop in Adelaide and it was spectacular.

  • You'll be back in Adelaide in no time.

  • Production of the Freedom Powerbank for households begins in Adelaide in January next year.

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  • US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has praised Adelaide after she visited key defense facilities.

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  • Please welcome to A Late Show from Adelaide, Australia.

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Etymology

Adelaide comes from an old German name made of Adal 'noble' and heid 'kind', so it originally meant 'noble kind'. The Australian city Adelaide was named after Queen Adelaide, so you can remember the place name by thinking of a queen and the idea of 'noble'.