Muscat
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- proper noun
- /ˈmʌskæt/
- The number of cruise ship passengers visiting the country also increased dramatically, as more lines added port stops in Muscat.
- Muscat, Oman
Examples
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While Muscat has long pursued a policy of friendship to all its neighbors, the Iran-Oman Parliamentary Friendship Group in the sultanate has become more active in recent years.
Academic text (2008) -
The Sixth GCC Summit held in Muscat in December 1995 made no reference to Qatar's peace initiative, perhaps due to Saudi pressure.
Academic text (1997) -
A perfect way to spend a day in Muscat... even if we couldn't fit in a run.
Blog text (30) -
After leaving Dubai, we arrived the next morning in Muscat, Oman.
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Trainers run in front of their camels at the start of the annual camel race south of Muscat, the capital of Oman.
Blog text (29) -
I am simple," the taxi driver explained to me as he drove me to the Center for Shariah Studies in Muscat, the capital of Oman in the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Doha was struggling to persuade the conferees in Muscat to appoint Abd at-Rahman al-Atiya, Qatar's deputy minister of foreign affairs, to that position.
Academic text (1997) -
At sunset, the cruise ship pulled away from the pier in Muscat, Oman.
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Promptly at 8 p.m., a cannon boomed and the heavy wooden gates of Muscat, the capital, were closed tight.
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My three-week journey would take me from Muscat, in Oman, to the Hadramawt Valley in Yemen.
Synonyms
A city that is Oman’s capital and main port on the Gulf of Oman
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Muscat comes from the Arabic name Masqat, which many say means 'place of anchoring' or 'where things fall'. That's why the city got this name: it sits by a natural harbour between mountains and the sea, a place ships could safely anchor.