Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The capital and largest city of Zimbabwe, in the northeast part of the country. Founded by the British in 1890, it is a manufacturing and tobacco-processing center. Its name was changed from Salisbury in 1982 to honor a 19th-century African leader.
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- proper noun The capital of
Zimbabwe .
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- noun the capital and largest city of Zimbabwe
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Examples
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HARARE, Zimbabwe - Hundreds of farms workers continued to strike in eastern Zimbabwe on Tuesday, but others near Harare returned to work, labor officials said.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's health ministry reassured Harare residents Tuesday that their drinking water was safe once it had been treated, though the capital's main water supply is badly polluted.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe - Ailing Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's herd of 100 goats at his home in an elite Harare suburb has annoyed neighbors whose complaints have fallen on deaf ears.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (Sapa-AP) - Elections for the mayors of Harare and its biggest satellite town were tarnished by "gross irregularities," the main independent human rights organization said Thursday.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe - Two Zimbabwean soldiers serving with U.N. peace keepers in Angola died when their vehicle detonated a land mine, the army headquarters in Harare said Monday.
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HARARE - Hundreds of black students besieged a Harare court where
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HARARE: A magistrate's court deferred the trial of an Eritrean on charges of plotting to kill Ethiopia's former dictator here, to allow for negotiations between the Asmara and Harare governments.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe - The Queen Victoria Museum in Harare will be renamed the Zimbabwe Museum of Human Sciences in another step by the black-ruled nation to shuck some of its colonialist roots.
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HARARE, Oct 25 (Reuter) - Leaders of 11 southern African states, scenting an end to civil wars that have devastated the region for decades, met in Harare on Tuesday to review peace efforts in member nations Angola, Mozambique and Lesotho.
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HARARE - Riot police deployed in the centre of Harare as about
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