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

  • The capital and largest city of Nepal, in the central part of the country in the eastern Himalaya Mountains. It was founded c. 723 and was a Gurkha capital from 1768 until the late 1700s.

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  • proper noun The capital of Nepal.

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  • noun the capital and largest city of Nepal

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