Lahore

[ luh-hawr, -hohr ]

noun

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

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

Example Sentences

Anmol Irfan is a freelance journalist and founder of Perspective Magazine, based in Lahore, Pakistan.

From MIT Technology Review

Some of the country’s LGBTQ and intersex advocacy groups organizations are based in Lahore, but most of them are in Karachi.

From Washington Blade

Until then, they had lived in huge metropolises, in Manchester and London and Benghazi and Lahore.

From Vox

Arslan Siddique was 4 years old when he went missing one night from his home in Lahore, Pakistan.

From Ozy

Early in 1999 Sharif invited then-Prime Minister Atal Vajpayee to Lahore to talk about reducing tensions.

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

The troops, British and native, were stationed in the cantonment of Mian-mir, some five miles from Lahore.

From Project Gutenberg

Cowering amid some shrubs of dense foliage, he watched Malcolm dashing along the road to the Lahore Gate of the palace.

From Project Gutenberg

With that he walked coolly into the roadway and stepped out leisurely towards the Lahore Gate.

From Project Gutenberg

It was hard to tell what hue and cry might be raised by the troopers against whom the guards had closed the Lahore Gate.

From Project Gutenberg