Addis Ababa

[ ahd-dis ah-buh-bah; English ad-is ab-uh-buh ]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Ethiopia, in the central part.

Addis Ababa

/ ˈædɪs ˈæbəbə /

noun

1. the capital of Ethiopia, on a central plateau 2400 m (8000 ft) above sea level: founded in 1887; became capital in 1896. Pop: 2 899 000 (2005 est)

Addis Ababa

1. Capital of Ethiopia and largest city in the country, located in the central region.

Example Sentences

Beferdu uses the recipes she learned from her restaurateur-mother as a girl growing up in Addis Ababa and later showcased in a trio of hotels she ran in Ethiopia’s capital.

From Washington Post

Anaol Dalle, a PhD candidate at the University of South Florida who is studying the Horn of Africa and who spoke to me from Addis Ababa, said this unequal access is deliberate.

From Vox

Abebe, 29, is from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital and largest city.

From Quanta Magazine

She was an associate partner at Mckinsey & Company responsible for opening their Addis Ababa office.

From TechCrunch

First and foremost, they planned to climb with kids from a local nonprofit at a smaller crag near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital.

From Outside Online

Apparently, goats in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, can ride humans piggyback.

From The Daily Beast

She was 19 at the time, working as a waitress at a sketchy makeshift bar in a small mining town 460 miles north of Addis Ababa.

From The Daily Beast

This will require power diplomacy in Addis Ababa and the region.

From The Daily Beast

Aboul Gheit had traveled to Addis Ababa early on January 25 to head a delegation at the African Union Summit.

From The Daily Beast

The Ethiopian “rebels” of the 1980s  overthrew the Derg regime in 1991 and now form the government in Addis Ababa.

From The Daily Beast