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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The administrative capital of South Africa, in the northeast part of the country north of Johannesburg. Founded in 1855, it became the capital of Transvaal in 1860 and capital of South Africa in 1910.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
pretorium .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun The administrative
capital ofSouth Africa . South Africa has two other capitals: the legislative capitalCape Town and the judicial capitalBloemfontein .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun city in the Transvaal; the seat of the executive branch of the government of South Africa
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