Havana

[ huh-van-uh ]

noun

1. Spanish Ha·ban·a [ah-, vah, -nah]. a seaport in and the capital of Cuba, on the northwestern coast.
2. a cigar made in Cuba or of Cuban tobacco.

Havana

/ həˈvænə /

noun

1. the capital of Cuba, a port in the northwest on the Gulf of Mexico: the largest city in the Caribbean; founded in 1514 as San Cristóbal de la Habana by Diego Velásquez. Pop: 2 192 000 (2005 est) Spanish nameHabana Habanero

Havana

1. Capital of Cuba and largest city in the country, located in western Cuba; the largest city and chief port of the West Indies and one of the oldest cities in the Americas.

Notes

The sinking of the American battleship Maine in Havana harbor in 1898 led to the Spanish-American War .

Example Sentences

The song movingly traces Abuela Claudia and her mother’s journey, from being unable to find food and work in Havana to struggling to learn English as domestic workers in New York.

From Washington Post

Born in Havana less than a year after Fidel Castro’s communist takeover, Mayorkas was already a refugee by his first birthday.

From Time

A car drives along Havana’s oceanfront boulevard known as the Malecón on May 12, 2017.

From Washington Blade

Havana last year sent more than 200 Cuban medical experts to South Africa as the country battled the pandemic, and every year South Africa sends many of its doctors to train at Cuban medical schools.

From Ozy

He was first a writer and received some tools once he graduated from the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Training Center in Havana.

From Washington Blade

In 1950, Serna earned his Ph.D. from the University of Havana, where he had befriended a classmate named Fidel Castro.

From The Daily Beast

“At least it keeps the mosquitoes away,” one of my table-mates said, as we watched the swooshes of smoke waft into the Havana sky.

From The Daily Beast

Nothing captures the exuberance and sensory experience of Havana quite like this.

From The Daily Beast

Lastly, the re-opening of diplomatic ties between Havana and Washington gives Brazil a chance to push for changes in Cuba.

From The Daily Beast

So in America, “Havana Club” is made by Bacardi in Puerto Rico and can be found in five states.

From The Daily Beast

Ferdinand de Soto sailed from Havana with ten ships for the conquest of Florida.

From Project Gutenberg

In Havana, were a man to ask for a Flor del Fumar, the dealer would ask him what size he wanted.

From Project Gutenberg

The truth is that all the best tobacco grown in the island of Cuba is bought up by the heavy manufacturers in Havana.

From Project Gutenberg

In Havana, as throughout Cuba, there is a cigar etiquette, to infringe any of the rules of which is construed as an insult.

From Project Gutenberg

The good farmer imported, for the interior filling, a fine tobacco from Havana.

From Project Gutenberg