Caracas [ kuh -rah -kuh s; Spanish kah-r ah SHOW IPA
/ kəˈrɑ kəs; Spanish kɑˈrɑ kɑs / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun
a city in and the capital of Venezuela, in the N part.
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How to use Caracas in a sentence Following the country’s economic collapse and subsequent food shortages, 28 people in a Caracas suburb died within days of each other, leading some to fear that a deadly virus was spreading within their community.
She knew next to nothing about the country’s culture or politics, but prepared to write for a Venezuelan audience by reading classic novels and traveling to Caracas , where she filled her notebook with snippets of conversation.
In the years following my first memorable outing, I returned to Caracas over and over again.
Gracie packed up her Wellington boots, long-sleeved shirts, and trousers, and flew to Caracas with a five-liter alembic still.
The result was a perfect storm of commuter congestion where “normal Caracas chaos became absolute mayhem.”
Maria “Macarena” Paz, a Caracas engineer, is underwhelmed by this explanation.
Julio Cesar Rosas (a pseudonym) owns a medium-sized business in Los Cortijos, a district in east-central Caracas .
Caracas was plunged into darkness in the middle of a televised speech by President Nicolas Maduro.
The taking of Caracas in 1595 showed him as not only an able leader, but as an extraordinarily gifted tactician.
Caracas was then, as it is now, the head-quarters of the colony, which was separated from the Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1731.
The American Army plane banked sharply over the blacked-out Caracas field.
In due course he reached the spot—a small Indian village in the mountains, some fifteen miles from Caracas .
“I have come all the way from Caracas to Wellington,” he said.
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British Dictionary definitions for Caracas
Caracas
/ (kəˈrækəs , -ˈrɑː- , Spanish kaˈrakas ) /
noun
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)
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Cultural definitions for Caracas
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
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