Lima
1 Americannoun
noun
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a city in and the capital of Peru, near the Pacific coast.
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a city in northwestern Ohio.
noun
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the capital of Peru, near the Pacific coast on the Rímac River: the centre of Spanish colonization in South America; university founded in 1551 (the oldest in South America); an industrial centre with a port at nearby Callao. Pop: 8 180 000 (2005 est)
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communications a code word for the letter L
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Lima was the capital of the empire of Spain in the New World until the nineteenth century.
Etymology
Origin of Lima
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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While the store’s events are often bursting with energy, those moments are still tainted by an “underlying fear that is kind of like a dark cloud among our community,” Lima said.
From Los Angeles Times
"It’s a crazy country. You go to bed with one president and wake up with another," Fabiola Fernandez, a self‑employed worker, told AFP in Lima Thursday.
From Barron's
Representative Leila de Lima, one of that filing's endorsers, called it "an improved version" of the complaint tossed out by the Supreme Court last year.
From Barron's
Paula Jimenez, a 22-year-old saleswoman in the Peruvian capital Lima, said the political crisis was "secondary" compared to the everyday problems of ordinary people.
From Barron's
And she works with a community of knitters in Lima, Peru, with handknitting -- "something that my grandmother taught me as a child" -- being a hallmark of her garments.
From Barron's
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