Dahomey

[ duh-hoh-mee; French da-aw-mey ]

/ dəˈhoʊ mi; French da ɔˈmeɪ /

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noun

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OTHER WORDS FROM Dahomey

Da·ho·me·an, Da·ho·man

[duh-hoh-muhn], /dəˈhoʊ mən/, adjective, noun

Words nearby Dahomey

dahabeah, Dahl, Dahlgren, dahlia, Dahna, Dahomey, dahoon, daibutsu, daiker, daikon, Dáil Éireann

How to use Dahomey in a sentence

Learning about the warrior women of Dahomey, it was a history that I had read about.
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We can scarcely regard the persons figuring in the following true story as being very much superior to the King of Dahomey.
Ancient Faiths And Modern|Thomas Inman
In Dahomey the Amazonian guards of the king perform all military duty with equal ease and thoroughness with men.
The Education of American Girls|Anna Callender Brackett
What we find in germs and remnants elsewhere, grow, in Dahomey, to inordinate and incredible proportions.
The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies|Robert Gordon Latham

The other fled to the Little Popo, an island off the coast of Dahomey, and there settled.
The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies|Robert Gordon Latham
As well might I suppose that your monarchical sympathies deeply interest you in the autocracy of Dahomey and Drfur.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 393, July 1848|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Dahomey

Dahomey

/ (dəˈhəʊmɪ) /

noun

the former name (until 1975) of Benin

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