Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of west-central Iran south-southwest of Tehran. It has been a Shiite Muslim center since early Islamic times and a pilgrimage site since the 1600s.
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- proper noun A city in
Iran . - proper noun A province of Iran
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Examples
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And in Qom, the original Islamic Revolution — the one that brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power in 1979 — remains robust and popular.
Among the Mullahs 2010
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Because Qom is a pilgrimage site, it attracts visitors from many parts of the Shiite world.
Among the Mullahs 2010
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SHUSTER: But many of Khamenei's critics in Qom have been harassed and threatened.
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For all their supposed fear of the Twitter Revolution, the Iranian clerics in Qom have been running blogging workshops — mostly targeting religious women — since 2006.
Rise of the Online Autocrats Evgeny Morozov 2010
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Prof. ASKARI: I don't think that many of the senior clerics in Qom who have expressed views against him will, in fact, back down and back him.
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Al-Sadr is currently in Qom, Iran studying to become an ayatollah.
Matt Kane: Iraqnophobia: The Political Tornado of American and Iranian Influence in Iraq's Parliament Matt Kane 2010
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Al-Sadr is currently in Qom, Iran studying to become an ayatollah.
Matt Kane: Iraqnophobia: The Political Tornado of American and Iranian Influence in Iraq's Parliament Matt Kane 2010
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Al-Sadr is currently in Qom, Iran studying to become an ayatollah.
Matt Kane: Iraqnophobia: The Political Tornado of American and Iranian Influence in Iraq's Parliament Matt Kane 2010
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Al-Sadr is currently in Qom, Iran studying to become an ayatollah.
Matt Kane: Iraqnophobia: The Political Tornado of American and Iranian Influence in Iraq's Parliament Matt Kane 2010
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On his arrival in Qom earlier this week, he delivered a speech in the city's central square in which he labeled opposition to the government sedition, and said the government had inoculated the country against political and social microbes.
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