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Calabar

Calabar proper noun: the largest city and state capital of Cross River State, Nigeria.

Proper noun

Calabar

  1. The largest city and state capital of Cross River State, Nigeria.
    • The Presbyterian Church of Scotland had established missions in Calabar in 1846, thirty years before Mary [Slessor] arrived.2025 November 25, Segun Dukeh, “Who Stopped the Killing of Twins in Nigeria?”, in The Guardian

Forms of Calabar

alternative formCalabari
alternative formCalbari
alternative formCallabar
alternative formKalabar
alternative formKalabari

Words formed from Calabar

Phrases with Calabar

Questions about Calabar

What does Calabar mean?
Calabar means the largest city and state capital of Cross River State, Nigeria.
What part of speech is Calabar?
Calabar is a proper noun.

Words near Calabar in the dictionary

  1. Calaasan
  2. Calaba
  3. calaban
  4. Calabanga
  5. calabans
  6. Calabar
  7. Calabar bean
  8. Calabar beans
  9. Calabari
  10. calabarine
  11. Calabarzon

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