Kuala Lumpur [ kwah -luh loo m-poo r ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈkwɑ lə lʊmˈpʊər / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun
a city in and the capital of Malaysia, in the SW Malay Peninsula.
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How to use Kuala Lumpur in a sentence He forced a third set in half of them, and he even held a match point in the 2013 Kuala Lumpur championship against Portugal’s João Sousa.
The restaurants I loved in Kuala Lumpur weren’t huge on mementos, anyway.
The two carriers are headquartered in Kuala Lumpur but have vastly different profiles and operating philosophies.
The Boeing jetliner had 295 people on board and was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur .
For weeks the information coming out of Kuala Lumpur was, at best, inconsistent and contradictory and, at worst, tainted.
This is just the latest example of contradictory and unsubstantiated information from unnamed sources leaking from Kuala Lumpur .
The security scanning at Kuala Lumpur failed to register anything.
In that sneering laugh of Kuala Pahangs echoed a world of maddening defiance.
Twice or thrice the sailors slipped in blood and rum upon the planking, and once Kuala Pahang all but jerked free from them.
He was at sea again; witnessing the death of Scurlock, the boy and Kuala Pahang, in the blood-tinged waters.
Fifty years ago thus had his grandsires eyes kindled at sight of Kuala Pahang in her tight little Malay jacket.
Kuala Lumpor is also the federal capital of the Malay States.
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British Dictionary definitions for Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur
/ (ˈkwɑːlə ˈlʊmpʊə , -pə ) /
noun
a city in Malaysia, in the SW Malay Peninsula: formerly (until 1999) the capital of Malaysia; became capital of the Federated Malay States in 1895, and of Malaysia in 1963; capital of Selangor state from 1880 to 1973, when it was made a federal territory. Pop: 1 392 000 (2005 est)
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