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noun
1.
a town in central Mali, W Africa, near the Niger River. 19,500. French, Tombouctou.
2.
any faraway place.
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Word Origin & History
Timbuktu
city on the southern edge of the Sahara desert, older spelling Timbuctoo, used allusively in Eng. for "most distant place imaginable" from at least 1863.
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Cultural Dictionary
Timbuktu [(tim-buk-tooh)]A remote town in western Africa. Figuratively, it is a faraway and unknown place.
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