Belgrade

[bel-greyd, -grahd, -grad, bel-greyd, -grahd, -grad]

Bel·grade

[bel-greyd, -grahd, -grad, bel-greyd, -grahd, -grad]
noun
a city in and the capital of Yugoslavia and the republic of Serbia, at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers. 1,209,360.
Serbo-Croatian, Beograd.

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Ser·bi·a

[sur-bee-uh]
noun
a former kingdom in S Europe: now, with revised boundaries, a constituent republic of Yugoslavia, in the N part; includes the autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina. 9,660,000; 34,116 sq. mi. (88,360 sq. km). Capital: Belgrade.
Formerly, Servia.

Yu·go·sla·vi·a

[yoo-goh-slah-vee-uh]
noun
1.
a federal republic in S Europe: since 1992 comprised of Serbia and Montenegro. 10,573,928; 39,449 sq. mi. (102,173 sq. km). Capital: Belgrade.
2.
Formerly (1918–29), Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. a republic in S Europe on the Adriatic: formed 1918 from the kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro and part of Austria-Hungary; a federal republic 1945-91 comprised of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia.

Yu·go·sla·vi·an, adjective, noun
Yu·go·slav·ic, adjective
pro-Yu·go·sla·vi·an, adjective, noun
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Belgrade (bɛlˈɡreɪd, ˈbɛlɡreɪd)
 
n
Serbian name: Beograd the capital of Serbia, in the E part at the confluence of the Danube and Sava Rivers: became the capital of Serbia in 1878, of Yugoslavia in 1929, and later of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (2003--2006). Pop: 1 280 639 (2002)

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Belgrade [(bel-grayd, bel-grahd, bel-grad)]

Capital of the former Yugoslavia and of the Yugoslavian republic of Serbia, located on the Danube River; a commercial, industrial, political, and cultural center. The city was bombed during the Kosovo War.

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