Iwo

[ ee-woh ]

/ ˈi woʊ /

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noun

a city in SW Nigeria.

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Words nearby Iwo

iwan, I wandered lonely as a cloud, IWC, iwi, iwis, Iwo, Iwo Jima, I.W.W., Ixelles, ixia, Ixion

How to use Iwo in a sentence

His true love, he claimed, was Jimmie Trimble, a boy he had known at prep school who died fighting at the Battle of Iwo Jima.
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British Dictionary definitions for Iwo

Iwo

/ (ˈiːwəʊ) /

noun

a city in SW Nigeria. Pop: 479 000 (2005 est)

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