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| Acadia |
a former French colony on the northeastern coast of Canada. |
| Aden |
a former British colony and protectorate, now part of Yemen. [1/2 definitions] |
| Alma-Ata |
the largest city of Kazakhstan and a former capital. |
| alumna |
a female graduate or former student of an educational institution. |
| alumnus |
a male graduate or former student of an educational institution. |
| ancien régime |
any former political and social system. [1/2 definitions] |
| anna |
a former copper-nickel coin of India and Pakistan, equaling one sixteenth of a rupee. |
| archduke |
a title given to a ruling prince, esp. in the former royal families of Austria. |
| Astana |
the former name of the capital city of Kazakhstan. |
| atomic theory |
a former theory that all material objects and substances are composed of irreducible units of matter. [1/2 definitions] |
| Austria-Hungary |
a former European monarchy composed of the Austrian empire, Hungary, and parts of other countries. |
| back |
in the direction of an earlier time or a former place or position. [1/15 definitions] |
| battering ram |
a heavy wooden beam used by warriors in former times to break through doors, walls, gates, or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| battle-ax |
a wide-bladed, heavy ax used in former times as a weapon. |
| Black Shirt |
a member of a fascist military organization, esp. the former Italian one, whose uniform includes a black shirt. |
| Bombay |
the former name of a capital city of a state in India, on the west central coast. Bombay is now called Mumbai. |
| Bonn |
the former capital of West Germany. |
| broad jump |
in track competition, a jump for distance with a running start; a former name for long jump. [1/2 definitions] |
| Bujumbura |
the former capital of Burundi, and the foremost center of commerce. |
| bygone |
gone by; former; past. |
| Castile |
a former kingdom that in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries occupied most of modern Spain. [1/2 definitions] |
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