name
Meaning 1
A city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
Nassau
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈnæsɔː/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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CMU ARPABET: N AE1 S AO0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
The capital city of the Bahamas.
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noun
Meaning 3
A wager consisting essentially of three separate bets, for the best score on each of the front nine (holes 1–9), back nine (holes 10–18), and total 18 holes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: gambling, games, golf, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Meaning 4
the capital of the Bahamas
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: capital of the Bahamas
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: national capital
History
Etymology
Borrowed from German Nassau, from German nass (“wet”). The Bahamian city is named after the German one.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: نَاسَاو (nasāw) — capital of the Bahamas
- Armenian: Նասաու (Nasau) — capital of the Bahamas
- Asturian: Nasáu — capital of the Bahamas
- Belarusian: На́сау (Násau) — capital of the Bahamas
- Belarusian: На́саў (Násaw) — capital of the Bahamas
- Bulgarian: Наса́у (Nasáu) — capital of the Bahamas
- Chinese Mandarin: 拿騷 /拿骚 (Násāo) — capital of the Bahamas
- Czech: Nassau — capital of the Bahamas
- Danish: Nassau — capital of the Bahamas
- Dutch: Nassau — capital of the Bahamas
- Finnish: Nassau — capital of the Bahamas
- French: Nassau — capital of the Bahamas
- Galician: Nassau — capital of the Bahamas
- Georgian: ნასაუ (nasau) — capital of the Bahamas
- German: Nassau — capital of the Bahamas
- Greek: Νασσάου (Nassáou) — capital of the Bahamas
- Hebrew: נסאו — capital of the Bahamas
- Hindi: नासाओ (nāsāo) — capital of the Bahamas
- Hungarian: Nassau — capital of the Bahamas
- Italian: Nassau — capital of the Bahamas
- Japanese: ナッソー (Nassō) — capital of the Bahamas
- Khmer: ណាស្សូ (naassou) — capital of the Bahamas
- Korean: 나소 — capital of the Bahamas
- Maltese: Nassaw — capital of the Bahamas
- Marathi: नॅसॉ (nĕsŏ) — capital of the Bahamas
- Polish: Nassau — capital of the Bahamas
- Portuguese: Nassau — capital of the Bahamas
- Russian: На́ссау (Nássau) — capital of the Bahamas
- Russian: Насса́у (Nassáu) — capital of the Bahamas
- Russian: На́ссо (Násso) — capital of the Bahamas
- Spanish: Nasáu — capital of the Bahamas
- Thai: นัสซอ — capital of the Bahamas
- Ukrainian: На́ссау (Nássau) — capital of the Bahamas
- Vietnamese: Na-xao — capital of the Bahamas
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