Calabar

[ kal-uh-bahr, kal-uh-bahr ]

noun

1. a river in SE Nigeria. About 70 miles (113 km) long.
2. a seaport near the mouth of this river.

Calabar

/ ˈkæləˌbɑː /

noun

1. a port in SE Nigeria, capital of Cross River state. Pop: 418 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Last year, ten miles from Calabar, Dr. Stewart rode his bicycle into a native village.

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Calabar then was like some of the flowers growing in the bush, very pretty but very poisonous.

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Very sorrowfully she gave up the work in Calabar she loved so much, but she felt that her sister needed her most.

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Egbo was a more dreadful thing in Okoyong than in Calabar, for there was no law against it.

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So a warning went to all the missionaries along the banks of the river to come down to Calabar at once.

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