Baghdad

Or Bag·dad

[bag-dad, buhg-dad]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Iraq, in the central part, on the Tigris.

Baghdad

/ bæɡˈdæd /

noun

1. the capital of Iraq, on the River Tigris: capital of the Abbasid Caliphate (762–1258). Pop: 5 910 000 (2005 est)

Baghdad

1. Capital of Iraq, located in central Iraq on both banks of the Tigris River.

Baghdad has long been one of the great cities of the Muslim world.

It was bombed heavily during the Persian Gulf War.

Example Sentences

He served for three months until recently as the top US diplomat in Baghdad while remaining ambassador to Yemen, a job in which he has been based primarily in Saudi Arabia.

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Fatima Al-Wardi, a 30-year-old Iraqi Muslim who runs a humanitarian project in Baghdad, had never seen the sea before the voyage.

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A bomb killed fellow Baghdad provincial council member and election candidate Safaa al-Mashhadani on Wednesday when it exploded under his car north of the city.

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Iraqi protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad twice in July 2023, starting fires in the compound on the second occasion.

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That’s why the infamous newspaper columnist Herb Caen dubbed it “Baghdad by the Bay” more than 80 years ago, when the town had already fully embraced its outsider status.

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