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

  • The capital and largest city of Mozambique, in the extreme southern part of the country on the Indian Ocean. Founded as Lourenço Marques in the late 1700s, it was was renamed in 1976.

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  • proper noun The capital city of Mozambique

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  • noun the capital and largest city of Mozambique

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