Belgrade

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Belgrade

/ˈbɛlɡɹeɪd/
/bəlˈɡɹɑːd/ dated

Rhymes with -eɪd

Where it comes from

From French Belgrade, from Medieval Latin Belgradum and Belogradum, ultimately from South Slavic forms of Proto-Slavic *bělъ (“white”) and *gȏrdъ (“fortress, city”), after the white walls of its medieval fortress. Doublet of Beograd, Berat, and Belgorod.

proper noun

The capital city of Serbia; the former capital of Yugoslavia; the former capital of Serbia and Montenegro. To me a day in Belgrade is incomplete without a walk through the dark shade of Kelmegdan park's big chestnuts to the ramparts of the mighty fortress overlooking the strategic confluence of the Sava and the Danube.
Similar: Beograd
metonymically The Serbian or Yugoslav government. Prosecution witness Osman Selak claimed that the Bosnian Serb army was under the de facto control of Belgrade, as the Prosecution alleged, but under cross-examination could not produce a single example of an order issued by the Yugoslav army to the Bosnian Serb army.
A town in Kennebec County, Maine.
A township in Nicollet County, Minnesota.
A minor city in Stearns County, Minnesota.
An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri.
A city in Gallatin County, Montana.
A village in Nance County, Nebraska.
A ghost town in Newton County, Texas.
A town in Zululand district municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: beograd, serbia, zagreb, salonika, serbian, yugoslav, yugoslavian, yugoslavia, caracas, milosevic, belgrad, singidunum, white city, servia, serb., bosnia-herzegovina

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name capital of Serbia

Español	Belgrado
한국어	베오그라드 Be'ogeuradeu
日本語	ベオグラード Beogurādo
中文	貝爾格萊德 /贝尔格莱德 Bèi'ěrgéláidé
हिन्दी	बेलग्रेड belagreḍ, बैलग्रेड bailagreḍ, बॅलग्रेड bĕlagreḍ, बॅलग्राद bĕlagrād
Português	Belgrado
Français	Belgrade
Deutsch	Belgrad, Weißenburg
Italiano	Belgrado
Ελληνικά	Βελιγράδι Veligrádi
Română	Belgrad
Русский	Белгра́д Belgrád
Tiếng Việt	Bê-ô-grát
العربية	بِلْغْرَاد bilḡrād, بِلْجْرَاد bilgrād
עברית	בֶּלְגְּרָד belgrad

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@misc{belgrade_2026,
  title = {Belgrade},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/belgrade},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}