Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northwest Syria near the Turkish border. Inhabited perhaps as early as the sixth millennium BC, Aleppo was a key point on the caravan route across Syria to Baghdad and later a major center of Christianity in the Middle East.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a city in Syria.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A city now in northern
Syria , formerly an important city in the ancient world (Beroea ofSeleucid empire).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a city in northwestern Syria
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Examples
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In 1997, the World Council of Churches met in Aleppo, Syria, and proposed scientifically updating both calendars.
Catholics, Orthodox Agree: Pope Remains a Sticking Point Josh Fleet 2010
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In 1997, the World Council of Churches met in Aleppo, Syria, and proposed scientifically updating both calendars.
Catholics, Orthodox Agree: Pope Remains a Sticking Point Josh Fleet 2010
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The odds aren't helped if you happen to be growing up in Aleppo, in French Syria.
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The odds aren't helped if you happen to be growing up in Aleppo, in French Syria.
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The odds aren't helped if you happen to be growing up in Aleppo, in French Syria.
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Then he did a travel show with Cesar Romero, and pretty soon he had the career they'd said back in Aleppo was impossible: he was a Hollywood moviemaker.
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Then he did a travel show with Cesar Romero, and pretty soon he had the career they'd said back in Aleppo was impossible: he was a Hollywood moviemaker.
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There is no land communication at all between Tarsus and Aleppo, which is at ten journeys (caravan travelling) distant from it.
Travels in Nubia 2004
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Aleppo weight, and 19 manas and one 4 part of Balsara, answereth the quintall of Aleppo, which is 494 roues, 8 ounces English, and
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sunni renegades had earlier massacred Alawite soldiers in Aleppo.
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