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Kowait

Kowait is the obsolete form of Kuwait.

Meaning of Kuwait

Proper noun

Kuwait

  1. A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: State of Kuwait. Capital: Kuwait City.
    • The first US service members to die in the conflict between the US and Iran were killed by a direct Iranian strike on a makeshift operations center at a civilian port in Kuwait on Sunday morning local time, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.2026 March 2, Haley Britzky, “No warning, no siren: Six US service members killed in Iranian strike that hit makeshift operations center in Kuwait”, in CNN, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2026

Questions about Kowait

What is Kowait the obsolete form of?
Kowait is the obsolete form of Kuwait.

Words near Kowait in the dictionary

  1. kow-tows
  2. Kowa-Bunga
  3. kowabonga
  4. kowabunga
  5. Kowagmiut
  6. Kowait
  7. Kowal
  8. Kowalchuk
  9. Kowalchuks
  10. Kowalczyk
  11. Kowaleski

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kowait (page history and authors); Kuwait (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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