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Pretoria

Pretoria

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A city in South Africa that is the administrative capital in Gauteng
  • proper noun
  • /prɪˈtɔːriə/
: Pretoria
  • Soon after, she started working at Pretoria's Transvaal Museum, cleaning and restoring fossils.
  • Pretoria, South Africa
  • government in Pretoria
  • University of Pretoria

My name is Tempo from South Africa, Pretoria.

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Examples

  • Ivan Vladislavic (b. 1957, Pretoria) lives in Johannesburg and works as a freelance writer.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • I can put in a request to Pretoria... ...and get you anything we've got on file here.

    Dust Devil (1992)

  • We'll take him to the police hospital in Pretoria.

    Cry Freedom (1987)

  • The University of Pretoria Research Ethics Committee approved this study.

    Academic text (2012)

  • R. Stephen Brent is an officer in the U.S. Agency for International Development mission in Pretoria, South Africa.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The consulate had made the reservations, assuring my secretary in Pretoria that it was clean, comfortable, and safe.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • To this end, a seven-day training workshop was held at the Technikon in Pretoria during June and July 1999.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Ms. Musoke is a microbiologist studying toward a PhD at the University of Pretoria, Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, in South Africa.

    Academic text (2015)

  • The Voortrekker monument, situated in the Pretoria area, is the bastion of Afrikanerdom and is regarded as hallowed ground.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Black and white voters line up in Pretoria to elect the country's new president.

Surface Forms

Pretoria main

Etymology

Pretoria is named after the 19th-century leader Andries Pretorius. His family name comes from the old Latin word praetor, which means 'leader', so the city's name remembers a leader and fits its role as South Africa's administrative capital.