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Erewan

Erewan is the obsolete form of Yerevan.

Meaning of Yerevan

Proper noun

Yerevan

  1. The capital and largest city of Armenia.
    • Before long Abbas Mirza suffered a succession of defeats, which culminated in the capture of Erivan, today capital of Armenia.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 99
  2. (metonymically) The Armenian government.

Questions about Erewan

What is Erewan the obsolete form of?
Erewan is the obsolete form of Yerevan.

Words near Erewan in the dictionary

  1. ereuthophobia
  2. ereuthrophobia
  3. EREV
  4. Erevan
  5. EREVs
  6. Erewan
  7. Erewash
  8. erewhile
  9. erewhiles
  10. Erewhonian
  11. Erewhonians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Erewan (page history and authors); Yerevan (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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