Meanings
proper noun
- alternativehistoricalobsoleteAlternative spelling of Chilminar, the ruins of Persepolis.
CHILMINAR, Chelminar, or Tchelminar, the moſt beautiful piece of architecture remaining of all antiquity, being the ruins of the famous palace of Perſopolis, to which Alexander the Great, in a drunken fit, ſet fire, at the inſtigation of Thais the courtezan...
1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183
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Chelminar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chelminar
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