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Havana

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of cigar: so called from Havana, the capital of Cuba, where cigars are extensively manufactured.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun The capital of Cuba.
  • proper noun A famous cigar produced in Cuba

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

  • noun the capital and largest city of Cuba; located in western Cuba; one of the oldest cities in the Americas

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Examples

  • MORGAN NEILL, CNN HAVANA BUREAU CHIEF: Here on the streets of Havana Cubans haven't yet had time to see the latest remarks of President Raul Castro saying he's open to talk about anything with the United States, including political prisoners, and press freedoms.

    CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2009 2009

  • MORGAN NEILL, CNN HAVANA BUREAU CHIEF: Well, here in Havana, Wolf, people have been keeping a close eye on this storm, because the trajectory for days had it passing right over the capital here.

    CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2008 2008

  • SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN HAVANA PRODUCER: Well, Michael, the mood here in Havana is very somber, as you can imagine.

    CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2006 2006

  • LUCIA NEWMAN, CNN HAVANA BUREAU CHIEF: Wolf, Venezuela's fiery leftist leader, Hugo Chavez, is here in Havana, in friendly territory, just as relations with the White House have taken a new turn for the worse.

    CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2006 2006

  • LUCIA NEWMAN, CNN HAVANA BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over): The honeymoon, if there ever was one, is over for Washington's new man in Havana, Michael Parmly.

    CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2005 2005

  • LUCIA NEWMAN, CNN HAVANA BUREAU CHIEF: Wolf, right now, it's what you would have called normally low tide here, which means the water levels on the seaside area of Havana have gone down just a little bit.

    CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2005 2005

  • LUCIA NEWMAN, CNN HAVANA BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over): Very few Cubans who still walk the streets of Havana have ever welcomed an American president, even a former one.

    CNN Transcript May 12, 2002 2002

  • LUCIA NEWMAN, CNN HAVANA BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over): Very few Cubans who still walk the streets of Havana have ever welcomed an American president, even a former one.

    CNN Transcript May 11, 2002 2002

  • HAVANA - Cuba's communist authorities urged official citizens 'vigilante groups in Havana to move firmly against a sharp increase in crime and vandalism accompanying night-time electricity blackouts in the capital.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • HAVANA - A group of 175 U.S. citizens arrived in Havana at the start of a weeklong holiday with a difference, risking jail sentences and fines by defying a U.S. ban on travel to communist-ruled Cuba.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

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