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Meaning of Chilminar | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Synonym of Persepolis, particularly its modern ruins.

historical, obsolete

Examples

“CHILMINAR, Chelminar, or Tchelminar, the moſt beautiful piece of architecture remaining of all antiquity, being the ruins of the famous palace of Perſepolis, to which Alexander the Great, in a drunken fit, ſet fire, at the inſtigation of Thais the courtezan...”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

chilmole chilodontid Chiloé Chiloe fox Chiloé Island chilognath

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