Lahore

[ luh-hawr, -hohr ]

noun
  1. a city in NE Pakistan: the capital of Punjab province.

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How to use Lahore in a sentence

  • On the day after India and Pakistan go to war in 1971, his parents married in Lahore, “as fighter jets screeched overhead.”

  • For example, Sharif has promised to build a bullet train from Karachi to Lahore without explaining how he would pay for it.

  • Sharif, 63, was born into money as the scion of a very wealthy family in Lahore.

  • While not offering any concrete solutions, he told journalists in Lahore that his government would not tolerate drone attacks.

  • In the telegraph office a young signaler was sending a thrilling message to Umballa, Lahore and the north.

    The Red Year | Louis Tracy
  • The troops, British and native, were stationed in the cantonment of Mian-mir, some five miles from Lahore.

    The Red Year | Louis Tracy
  • Cowering amid some shrubs of dense foliage, he watched Malcolm dashing along the road to the Lahore Gate of the palace.

    The Red Year | Louis Tracy
  • With that he walked coolly into the roadway and stepped out leisurely towards the Lahore Gate.

    The Red Year | Louis Tracy
  • It was hard to tell what hue and cry might be raised by the troopers against whom the guards had closed the Lahore Gate.

    The Red Year | Louis Tracy

British Dictionary definitions for Lahore

Lahore

/ (ləˈhɔː) /


noun
  1. a city in NE Pakistan: capital of the former province of West Pakistan (1955–70); University of the Punjab (1882). Pop: 6 373 000 (2005 est)

  2. a variety of large domestic fancy pigeon having a black-and-white plumage

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