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Adelaide

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of southern Australia northwest of Melbourne. Founded in 1836, Adelaide is the capital of South Australia.

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  • proper noun A female given name
  • proper noun State capital of South Australia, named in honor of Queen Adelaide, wife of King William IV.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the state capital of South Australia

Etymologies

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Borrowed from the French form of Old High German Adalheidis, adal "noble" + heid "nature, character". A cognate of Alice.

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hypernyms (1)

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  1. state capital

same context (3)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. Aotearoa
  2. Brisbane
  3. Burma

forms (2)

Forms

  1. Adelaidean
  2. Adelaidian

relateds (8)

relateds

  1. Adela
  2. Adele
  3. Adelina
  4. Adeline
  5. Alice
  6. Alison
  7. Ethel
  8. Heidi

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