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Adelaide

[ ad-l-eyd ]

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of South Australia, in Australia.
  2. a first name: from a Germanic word meaning “nobility.”


Adelaide

/ ˈædɪˌleɪd /

noun

  1. the capital of South Australia: Port Adelaide, 11 km (7 miles) away on St Vincent Gulf, handles the bulk of exports. Pop: 1 002 127 (2001)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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"It's such an interesting site, and the fact that it is referred to in medieval sources—when other, larger monuments aren't—demonstrates it was a significant site, too," co-author Erin Sebo of Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, told Ars.

Local council closures of public playgrounds in the early days of lockdown drove many Adelaide parents to the edge.

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Their event was the only tuneup competition held in Adelaide.

That success, and the risk that players and their entourages invite, led players to thank the crowd in Adelaide.

She studies physical activity and bone health at the University of South Australia in Adelaide.

Charlotte Marshall, a privately practicing clinical psychologist in Adelaide, South Australia echoed Harper.

Adelaide isn't just a doll letting things happen to her, she's a complicated and centered character with a lot at stake.

They are, from left to right, Perth (bottom left corner), Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane.

Adelaide (Jamie Brewer) on American Horror Story, episode 104, “Halloween Part 1”

Adelaide, who just wanted to be a pretty girl, deserved so much better than life gave her.

The acting of Adelaide Ristori made a profound impression upon Tchaikovsky.

In a series of lightning raids Port Adelaide police have arrested six teenagers who they claim are members of a sex cult.

Now, my dear Adelaide, dismiss from your mind the least idea of fault upon your side; nothing is further from the fact.

And the wife provided for him by the eternal fitness of things was Adelaide Birkett.

Adelaide smiled, not broadly, not hilariously, only to the exact shade demanded by conversational sympathy.

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