Amman

[ ah-mahn, ah-mahn ]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Jordan, in the W part.

Amman

/ əˈmɑːn /

noun

1. the capital of Jordan, northeast of the Dead Sea: ancient capital of the Ammonites, rebuilt by Ptolemy in the 3rd century bc . Pop: 1 292 000 (2005 est) Ancient namesRabbath AmmonPhiladelphia

Example Sentences

“When I was younger I wanted to learn Hebrew,” 23-year-old Palestinian named Yamen told me recently in Amman, Jordan.

From The Daily Beast

In Amman in the midst of the Iraq War, I had dinner one night with the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.

From The Daily Beast

In an effort to save his doomed mission, he hopped on a helicopter from Amman to Ramallah.

From The Daily Beast

They must advocate for the very thing their photo ops in Amman implied, infrastructural integration and political interdependence.

From The Daily Beast

Longstanding Marine outreach efforts to tribal leaders, including in Amman, were finally paying off.

From The Daily Beast

In this house, towards the end of the fifteenth century, lived a man named Zuinglius, amman or bailiff of the district.

From Project Gutenberg

The country between the Jordan and Amman offered many obstacles to our advance.

From Project Gutenberg

It then winds up a wadi to Es Salt, whence it strikes due eastward to Amman.

From Project Gutenberg

The railway to the south of the station was successfully cut, but north of Amman the cutting was not complete.

From Project Gutenberg

Sachs, Hans, his descriptions of cuts designed by Jost Amman, 408.

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