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khartoum

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for khartoum.

Editorial note

Well-equipped soldiers may be fine but low-income civilians in Khartoum would not have the means to obtain P100 respirators or gas masks.

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Quick take

The capital city of Sudan.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of khartoum gathered in one view.

noun

The capital city of Sudan.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for khartoum.

noun

The capital city of Sudan.

Example sentences

1

Well-equipped soldiers may be fine but low-income civilians in Khartoum would not have the means to obtain P100 respirators or gas masks.

2

If you say that you're in Khartoum when you're actually in New York, you won't get a very useful map back.

3

The National Public Health Laboratory in Khartoum has polio, cholera, and measles pathogens.

4

The capital city of Khartoum is experiencing the heaviest fighting.

5

On the 2nd week at the beginning of the Khartoum war, the bus companies started to refuse electronic payments and only take cash because they didn't trust the banking system will remain working.

6

I use a train to get to work every day, but I don't really know anything about how the technology works (beyond a superficial level, the same degree of trivial superficiality whereby I know that Khartoum is the capital city of Sudan) Even if I didn't know the word 'train' I think most reasonable users of English would still agree that I know what a train is.

7

> Maxim-gun slaughter of Mahdists in the eighteen-nineties The Mahdists had a policy, contrary to Islam, of enslaving Muslims who didn't support them, amongst all the usual slaver behaviour(e.g., after the siege, all the women and children in Khartoum were enslaved, which I'm sure went great for them.

Quote examples

1

You seem to be mixing undeveloped (Port au Prince, Khartoum, Dhaka, etc) up with "tribal".

2

From Wikipedia: "The Comet was originally intended to have two hydrogen peroxide powered de Havilland Sprite booster rockets for takeoff under hot and high conditions from airports such as Khartoum and Nairobi.

3

You are missing that I oppose an appropriation, that reduces of that richness of applications to a "yes but, you see, we cannot forget what happened in Khartoum, there is no return from that episode and now if you mention it I can only think of the event".

Proper noun examples

1

That would be the same as moving from Madrid to Moscow, or Lagos to Khartoum.

2

There are large amounts of gold deposits to the northeast of Khartoum, where we do most of our outdoor work.

3

I want Africa to become a garden stretching from Cape Town to Khartoum.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use khartoum in a sentence?

Well-equipped soldiers may be fine but low-income civilians in Khartoum would not have the means to obtain P100 respirators or gas masks.

What does khartoum mean?

The capital city of Sudan.

What part of speech is khartoum?

khartoum is commonly used as noun.