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Cheminar

Cheminar is the alternative spelling of Chilminar.

Meaning of Chilminar

Proper noun

Chilminar

  1. (historical, obsolete) Synonym of Persepolis, particularly its modern ruins.
    • CHILMINAR, Chelminar, or Tchelminar, the moſt beautiful piece of architecture remaining of all antiquity, being the ruins of the famous palace of Perſepolis, to which Alexander the Great, in a drunken fit, ſet fire, at the inſtigation of Thais the courtezan...1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183
    Synonyms:
    Persepolis, particularly its modern ruins

Questions about Cheminar

What is Cheminar the alternative spelling of?
Cheminar is the alternative spelling of Chilminar.

Words near Cheminar in the dictionary

  1. chemiluminometry
  2. CheMin
  3. chemin de fer
  4. chemin de ronde
  5. chemin-de-fer
  6. Cheminar
  7. cheminformatic
  8. cheminformatics
  9. chemins de ronde
  10. chemioautotrophic
  11. chemioluminescence

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cheminar (page history and authors); Chilminar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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