Associations to the word «Samarcand»

Wiktionary

SAMARCAND, proper noun. Alternative form of Samarkand

Dictionary definition

SAMARCAND, noun. City in southern Uzbekistan; Tamerlane's opulent capital in the 14th century.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne