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Capital of the United States   /kˈæpətəl əv ðə junˈaɪtəd steɪts/   Listen
Capital of the United States

noun
1.
The capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791.  Synonyms: American capital, Washington, Washington D.C..






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"Capital of the united states" Quotes from Famous Books



... north of the United States (15) dancer, she had distinguished partners, whose names were the capital of the United States (16), the capital of Ohio (17), the capital of Wisconsin (18), the capital of Alabama (19), the capital of Mississippi (20), and the capital of ...
— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 • Various

... winter set in, the British had taken the city of Philadelphia, then the capital of the United States. Washington's army was freezing and starving on the hillsides of Valley Forge,[25] about twenty ...
— The Beginner's American History • D. H. Montgomery

... Throne the Prince of Wales had long been the most travelled man in Europe. He had visited every Court and capital and centre upon that Continent; he had toured the North American Continent from the capital of Canada to the capital of the United States and from the historic heights of Quebec to the great western centre at Chicago; he had visited the most noted ...
— The Life of King Edward VII - with a sketch of the career of King George V • J. Castell Hopkins

... report to the scientific organization which controlled and co-ordinated the base's activities and kept it supplied and equipped. The Gissell Bay director was an eminent scientist. He talked comfortably to an even more eminent scientist in the capital of the United States. Naturally, the static scream was mentioned in Washington. As naturally, the discovery of a crashed spaceship came up. It was important. It should be reported. It was. The Gissell Bay director went into details about the children and about the gadgets they'd selected to ...
— Long Ago, Far Away • William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster

... capital of the United States, throughout the region by which it might be approached, the Government had selected Brigadier-General Winder; the same who the year before had been captured at Stoney Creek, on the Niagara frontier, ...
— Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 - Volume 2 • Alfred Thayer Mahan



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