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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southeast Kenya mainly on Mombasa Island, in the Indian Ocean north of Zanzibar. Visited by Vasco da Gama on his first voyage to India (1498), the island-city was ruled successively by Portugal, Oman, Zanzibar, and Great Britain until the early 1900s.
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- noun a port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean
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Examples
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We got into mombasa at 3.30 and I'd decided to see if I could get a night bus to Arusha, as was keen to escape the humidity and Mombasa hadn't been great for accommodation
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His crew celebrates in Mombasa, and Obama calls to congratulate Phillips.
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Meanwhile, Phillips '19-member crew rejoiced in Mombasa, Kenya, where the Alabama was docked after arriving Saturday following the pirates' foiled hijacking attempt.
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As the port in Mombasa in East Africa is one of the places many large cruise ships visit, Maniago can put together a concentrated taste of the region during the lay over.
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The same is true in Mombasa, Karachi, and every other city where a bomb could conceivably be built.
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The same is true in Mombasa, Karachi, and every other city where a bomb could conceivably be built.
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An official at the fisheries department in Mombasa said someone had even offered to pay as much as $150.
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“Most of the 151 passengers – mainly from the US, Europe and Australia – are to fly home from the Seychelles after a stop in Mombasa, Kenya, was cancelled.”
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They live together at the Haller Park preserve in Mombasa, Kenya.
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And BTW, Obama’s grandmother said she didn’t see hm born in Mombasa only later after saying she did.
Is Barack Obama An American Citizen? | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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