Caracas
a city in and the capital of Venezuela, in the N part.
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How to use Caracas in a sentence
Gracie packed up her Wellington boots, long-sleeved shirts, and trousers, and flew to Caracas with a five-liter alembic still.
When a Modern-Day Indiana Jones Met an Adventurous Gin Distiller | Ann Binlot | July 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe result was a perfect storm of commuter congestion where “normal Caracas chaos became absolute mayhem.”
Who Will Maduro Blame for Venezuela’s Blackout This Time? | Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez | June 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMaria “Macarena” Paz, a Caracas engineer, is underwhelmed by this explanation.
Who Will Maduro Blame for Venezuela’s Blackout This Time? | Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez | June 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJulio Cesar Rosas (a pseudonym) owns a medium-sized business in Los Cortijos, a district in east-central Caracas.
Who Will Maduro Blame for Venezuela’s Blackout This Time? | Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez | June 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCaracas was plunged into darkness in the middle of a televised speech by President Nicolas Maduro.
Who Will Maduro Blame for Venezuela’s Blackout This Time? | Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez | June 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The taking of Caracas in 1595 showed him as not only an able leader, but as an extraordinarily gifted tactician.
South America | W. H. KoebelCaracas was then, as it is now, the head-quarters of the colony, which was separated from the Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1731.
South America | W. H. KoebelThe American Army plane banked sharply over the blacked-out Caracas field.
The Five Arrows | Allan ChaseIn due course he reached the spot—a small Indian village in the mountains, some fifteen miles from Caracas.
The Woodlands Orchids | Frederick Boyle“I have come all the way from Caracas to Wellington,” he said.
Molly Brown's Junior Days | Nell Speed
British Dictionary definitions for Caracas
/ (kəˈrækəs, -ˈrɑː-, Spanish kaˈrakas) /
the capital of Venezuela, in the north: founded in 1567; major industrial and commercial centre, notably for oil companies. Pop: 3 276 000 (2005 est)
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for Caracas
[ (kuh-rah-kuhs) ]
Capital of Venezuela and the largest city in the country, located in northern Venezuela near the Caribbean Sea; commercial, industrial, and cultural center of the nation.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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