Prague

[ prahg ]
/ prɑg /

noun

a city in and the capital of the Czech Republic, in the W central part, on the Vltava: formerly capital of Czechoslovakia.
Czech Pra·ha [prah-hah] /ˈprɑ hɑ/. German Prag.

Example sentences from the Web for praha

  • Will he say that the population of Praha is not Czech because on our maps that capital is commonly called Prague?

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 |Henry Baerlein

  • This beautiful castle stands not far from Praha, on a rock of jasper a thousand feet above the River Mze.

    Our Little Czecho-Slovak Cousin |Clara Vostrovsky Winlow

  • When he reached beautiful "hundred-towered" Praha, the capital, he found the streets and coffee houses jammed with people.

    Our Little Czecho-Slovak Cousin |Clara Vostrovsky Winlow

British Dictionary definitions for praha (1 of 2)

Praha
/ (ˈpraha) /

noun

the Czech name for Prague

British Dictionary definitions for praha (2 of 2)

Prague
/ (prɑːɡ) /

noun

the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic, on the Vltava River: a rich commercial centre during the Middle Ages; site of Charles University (1348) and a technical university (1707); scene of defenestrations (1419 and 1618) that contributed to the outbreak of the Hussite Wars and the Thirty Years' War respectively. Pop: 1 164 000 (2005 est) Czech name: Praha

Cultural definitions for praha

Prague
[ (prahg) ]

Capital of The Czech Republic, situated on both banks of the Vltava River; the republic's largest city, as well as its most important industrial city; a leading European industrial and commercial center.

notes for Prague

From the fourteenth to the early seventeenth centuries, the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire resided at Prague as well as at Vienna.

notes for Prague

In 1968, Prague was the center of Czech resistance to invasion by the Soviet Union.