Meanings
- Synonym of Prague.
'While daddy works mommy plays for dayyys in Praha,' the 13-time Grammy nominee captioned her post on Friday.
2021 July 10, Deirdre Simonds, Rebecca Lawrence, “Katy Perry documents her and fiance Orlando Bloom's fun-filled adventures in Prague as he films Carnival Row”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jul 20212 more examples
Walter W. Birge Jr. of New York, third secretary of legation and vice consul at Baghdad, designated third secretary of embassy at Praha, Czechoslovakia, and assigned vice consul at Dharan, Saudi Arabia, for temporary duty en route.
1945 July 8, “The Foreign Service”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2025I find it very easy (too easy, perhaps) to visualize some scholarly monk coining the word in his dim cell in the midst of the Hussite religious war and passing it on out of the side of his mouth in a quick whisper at vespers, the word then going around from cowl to cowl all over Western Europe, accompanied by many a baleful glance in the direction of Praha, and many a surreptitious, throat-slitting gesture
1956 September 29, Eli Waldron, “Department of Amplification”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2021Synonyms: Prague
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Prague.
Origin
- CzechPraha
- EnglishPraha
From Czech Praha. Doublet of Prague.
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Praha. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Praha
“Praha.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Praha. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Praha,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Praha.
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