| K2 |
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proper noun
- The world's second highest mountain, located in the Tibetean Himalayas.
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| Kabul |
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proper noun
- The capital of Afghanistan.
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| Kalamazoo |
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proper noun (wikipedia, Kalamazoo, Michigan)
- a city in Michigan, USA
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| Kalgoorlie |
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proper noun
- A city in Western Australia.
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| Kaliningrad |
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proper noun
- A city in Russia, in Kaliningrad Oblast. Former Kí¶nigsberg.
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| kama |
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noun (pl=kama, pl2=kamas)
- A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.
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| Kampala |
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proper noun
- capital, and largest city in Uganda
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| Kampuchea |
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proper noun
- Former name for Cambodia.
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| Kan. |
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abbreviation - Kansas
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| Kandahar |
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proper noun
- A city and province in southern Afghanistan
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| Kansas |
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proper noun
- A state of the United States of America. Capital: Topeka.
- A rock band active in the 1970"s with members from the State of Kansas.
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| Kansas City |
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proper noun Kansas city, City
- A large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA.
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| Karachi |
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proper noun
- The capital of the province of Sindh, Pakistan, situated along the Arabian Sea. It is the largest city in Pakistan.
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| Karakoram |
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proper noun
- a mountain range located in Gilgit, Ladakh & Baltistan. The range is home to more than sixty peaks above 7,000m (22,960 ft), most of which are in the Northern Areas of Pakistan, including K2, the second highest peak of the world (8,611 m, 28,244 ft).
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| Karelia |
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proper noun
- A region to the north of Saint Petersburg in Russia and Finland.
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| Karnataka |
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proper noun - State in southern India which has Bangalore as its capital.
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| Kashmir |
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proper noun
- A region in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, between India, Pakistan and China.
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| Katrine |
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proper noun
- (given name, female) of Danish origin, occasionally used in English.
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| Kawasaki |
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proper noun
- a city in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
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| kea |
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noun
- Nestor notabilis, a bird of New Zealand.
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| Kedah |
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proper noun - State in western Malaysia which has Alor Setar as its capital.
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| Kelantan |
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proper noun - State in western Malaysia which has Kota Bharu as its capital.
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| Kennedy |
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proper noun
- An Irish and Scottish surname, derived from the Gaelic í� Ceannéidigh, "descendant of Head (ceann) + Ugly (éidigh) ".
- w:John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, US President.
- (given name, female) of modern American usage.
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| Kensington |
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proper noun - (London) An affluent area of west London; South Kensington contains several major museums
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| Kent |
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proper noun
- A maritime county in the southeast of England bordered by Sussex, Surrey, London, the North Sea and the English Channel.
- (slang) A one pence piece. Named after the cheapest property in Monopoly (TM).
- A surname derived from the place name.
- (given name, male) transferred from the surname; of mostly American usage, but never popular.
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| Kentucky |
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proper noun
- A state of the United States of America. Capital: Frankfort. Formally known as the Commonwealth of Kentucky, one of four such states known as Commonwealths.
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| Kenya |
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proper noun
- Country in Eastern Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.
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| Kerala |
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proper noun - State in southern India which has Thiruvananthapuram (formerly known as Trivandrum) as its capital.
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| Kerry |
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proper noun
- A county in the Republic of Ireland.
- A surname.
- (given name, male).
- (given name, female), originally Australian usage, also spelled Kerri and Kerrie.
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| Khartoum |
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proper noun
- Capital of the Sudan.
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| Khaskovo |
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proper noun khaskovo
- A town in southern Bulgaria.
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| Khios |
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proper noun - Alternative spelling of Chios.
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| Kiev |
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proper noun
- The capital of Ukraine.
- The medieval principality centred on Kiev, the Kievan State or Kievan Rus.
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| Kilimanjaro |
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proper noun - Volcanic mountain in Tanzania, the highest peak in Africa at 19,321 feet.
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| Kilkenny |
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proper noun
- A county of the Republic of Ireland, in the province of Leinster.
- The capital city of Kilkenny county
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| Kingston |
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proper noun
- The capital of Jamaica.
- Any of various towns or cities in the UK, US, Canada or Australia.
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| Kingstown |
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proper noun
- The capital city of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- The former name for Dun Laoghaire in Ireland.
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| Kinshasa |
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proper noun
- The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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| Kiribati |
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proper noun
- Country in Oceania. Official name: Republic of Kiribati.
- The Micronesian language spoken in Kiribati, also known as Gilbertese.
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| Kirkuk |
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proper noun
- a city in northeast Iraq
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| Kiruna |
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proper noun - A municipality in Sweden.
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| Kobe |
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proper noun
- a city in Honshu, Japan
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| Kohima |
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proper noun - The state capital of Nagaland (India).
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| kola |
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noun
- A tree bearing large brown nuts containing source of cola extract.
- A nut of this tree.
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| Kolar |
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proper noun
- A city in the Karnataka state of southern India.
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| Korea |
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proper noun (Koreas)
- An ancient country in East Asia. Since World War II, Korea has been divided into two sovereign states, commonly called South Korea and North Korea in the US, or Korea and North Korea in the UK.
- An informal name for the Republic of Korea (South Korea) or (less commonly) the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
adjective
- Korean (rfv-sense)
- You can get great noodles in Korea town
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| Kos |
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proper noun
- a Greek island in the Dodecanese
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| Kota Bharu |
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proper noun - The state capital of Kelantan (Malaysia).
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| Kota Kinabalu |
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proper noun - State capital of Sabah (Malaysia), formerly known as Jesselton.
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| Krakow |
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proper noun - Alternative spelling of Cracow.
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| Krishna |
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proper noun
- Lord Krishna (Hindu theology): He is usually depicted with blue skin and playing a flute. He is the divine speaker of the Bhagavad-gita and the eighth avatar of Vishnu.
- A river in southern India.
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| KS |
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abbreviation
- Kansas, a state of the United States of America.
- w:Kaposi's sarcoma, Kaposi's sarcoma
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| Kuala Lumpur |
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proper noun
- Federal territory in western Malaysia in which the country's current capital of the same name is located.
- Current national capital of Malaysia, located in the federal territory of the same name.
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| Kuantan |
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proper noun - The state capital of Pahang (Malaysia).
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| Kuching |
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proper noun - The state capital of Sarawak (Malaysia).
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| Kurdistan |
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proper noun
- A region in the Middle East inhabited mostly by the Kurds. It encompasses parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia, and Syria.
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| kurgan |
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noun
- A prehistoric burial mound once used by peoples in Siberia and Central Asia.
- 2004: The kurgans and the burials they contain are consistent with the early IE burial practices outlined above, and the late Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas proposed that the kurgan peoples were in fact early Indo-Europeans. " Benjamin Fortson, Indo-European Language and Culture (Blackwell 2005, p. 41)
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| Kuwait |
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proper noun
- Country in the Middle East. Official name: State of Kuwait.
- The capital city of .
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| KY |
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abbreviation
- Kentucky, a state of the United States of America.
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| Ky. |
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abbreviation - Kentucky
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| Kyoto |
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proper noun
- A city in Japan on the island of Honshu that once served as Japan"s capital.
- The Kyoto protocol, Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change, Climate Change -- An amendment to the international treaty on climate change, assigning mandatory targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to signatory nations.
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| Kyrgyzstan |
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proper noun
- Country in Central Asia, bordering on Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China. Official name: Kyrgyz Republic.
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| Kyushu |
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proper noun
- The third largest of Japan's islands
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