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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of northwest Syria near the Turkish border. Inhabited perhaps as early as the sixth millennium BC, Aleppo was a key point on the caravan route across Syria to Baghdad and later a major center of Christianity in the Middle East.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a city in Syria.

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  • proper noun A city now in northern Syria, formerly an important city in the ancient world (Beroea of Seleucid empire).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a city in northwestern Syria

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