Bagdad

[ bag-dad, buh g-dad ]

/ ˈbæg dæd, bəgˈdæd /

Baghdad.

Definition for bagdad (2 of 2)

Baghdad

[ bag-dad, buh g-dad ]

/ ˈbæg dæd, bəgˈdæd /

a city in and the capital of Iraq, in the central part, on the Tigris.

How we hoped they might soon be singing in a very different fashion when our troops should advance again and take Bagdad.

A Kut Prisoner |H. C. W. Bishop
At length, in 750, the seat of government was moved from Damascus to Bagdad.

The Roman Empire in the Light of Prophecy |W. E. Vine
Under the caliphs of Bagdad the Kūrds were always giving trouble in one quarter or another.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 8 |Various
She seemed to him a hundred times more beautiful than any description he had heard of her in Bagdad.

The Strand Magazine, Volume VII, Issue 42, June, 1894 |Various

In the great bazaars of the modern Bagdad one does not need to bargain or to haggle.

The Romance of a Great Store |Edward Hungerford

Bagdad

/ (bæɡˈdæd) /

a variant spelling of Baghdad

Baghdad

/ (bæɡˈdæd) /

the capital of Iraq, on the River Tigris: capital of the Abbasid Caliphate (762–1258). Pop: 5 910 000 (2005 est)

Baghdad

Capital of Iraq, located in central Iraq on both banks of the Tigris River.

Baghdad has long been one of the great cities of the Muslim world.

It was bombed heavily during the Persian Gulf War.