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Dahomey

[duh-hoh-mee; Fr. da-aw-mey]

Da·ho·mey

[duh-hoh-mee; Fr. da-aw-mey]
noun
former name of Benin (def. 1).
Da·ho·me·an, Da·ho·man [duh-hoh-muhn] , adjective, noun
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Dahomey is always a great word to know.
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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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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Dahomey (dəˈhəʊmɪ)
 
n
the former name (until 1975) of Benin

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