Kokand

American  

[ko-kand, kuh-kahnt] / kɒˈkænd, kʌˈkɑnt /

noun

1. a city in NE Uzbekistan, SE of Tashkent: formerly the center of a powerful khanate.

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Kokand British  

/ kaˈkant /

noun

1. a city in NE Uzbekistan, in the Fergana valley. Pop: 211 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

“Euphemistic speech is the highest form of thinking, human intelligence, an elegant, ‘veiled,’ neutralized, softened figurative expression of reality,” Xilola Inomovna Ismailova, an English teacher at Kokand State University, wrote last year.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

In the year 1494, at the age of twelve, he became king of Farghana, a small kingdom of Central Asia, now known as Kokand.

From A Handbook to Agra and the Taj Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood by Havell, E. B.