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Budapest

[ boo-duh-pest, boo-duh-pest; Hungarian boo-do-pesht ]

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Hungary, in the central part, on the Danube River: formed 1873 from two cities on the W bank of the Danube Buda and Obuda and one on the E bank Pest.


Budapest

/ ˌbjuːdəˈpɛst; ˈbudɔpɛʃt /

noun

  1. the capital of Hungary, on the River Danube: formed in 1873 from the towns of Buda and Pest. Traditionally Buda, the old Magyar capital, was the administrative and Pest the trade centre: suffered severely in the Russian siege of 1945 and in the unsuccessful revolt against the Communist regime (1956). Pop: 1 719 342 (2003 est)


Budapest

  1. Capital of Hungary and largest city in the country, located in north-central Hungary on both banks of the Danube River ; the industrial, cultural, and transportation center of Hungary.


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Example Sentences

Political or not, shown in New York or Budapest, it is a worthy achievement composed with taste and subtlety.

If ever there was a time for a show like “Letters to Afar” to be shown in Budapest, it is now.

The Budapest document makes sense historically only as a quid pro quo agreement resting upon American credibility to act.

The United States cannot simply walk away from the plain meaning of the Budapest Memorandum and leave Ukraine in the lurch.

Was the Grand Budapest Hotel itself the first thing you had to design?

And then scratching his head, "Yes, it must have been of Hungary, for they spoke of Budapest——"

At last some of his congregation accused him to the chief rabbi of Budapest of heterodoxy.

Another man, a Budapest painter, started off for an indefinite stay with an army corps in Bessarabia.

So this is the famous Budapest, is it, the twin cities of the blue Danube weve been hearing so much about?

He looks like that man, but then there are probably scores in Budapest who wear that same kind of hat, Alpine style.

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