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Prague

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //pɹɑːɡ//
  • //pɹeɪ̯ɡ//

The capital city of the Czech Republic; the former capital of Czechoslovakia; the former capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The capital city of the Czech Republic; the former capital of Czechoslovakia; the former capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia.

    I said, I've always wanted to visit Prague.

    The Czech Republic, like most countries, only formally recognises Beijing and not Taipei, but in recent years has grown ⁠closer to Taiwan, a powerhouse in the semiconductor industry, and has seen growing investment from it. Taiwanese Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung visited Prague earlier ⁠in May and spoke at a forum in the city.

  2. 2

    The Czech government.

Etymology

From German Prag, from Slavic. See Czech Praha for further origin. Doublet of Praha.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).