Usually means: Ancient city, Mali, historic significance.
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  1. timbuktu: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Timbuktu: Merriam-Webster
  3. Timbuktu: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Timbuktu: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Timbuktu: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Timbuktu: Vocabulary.com
  7. Timbuktu, timbuktu: Wordnik
  8. Timbuktu: Wiktionary
  9. Timbuktu: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Timbuktu: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Timbuktu: Dictionary.com
  12. Timbuktu: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  14. Timbuktu: Rhymezone
  15. timbuktu: FreeDictionary.org
  16. timbuktu: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Timbuktu: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Timbuktu: Encyclopedia

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  1. timbuktu: A Word A Day
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  1. Timbuktu: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Timbuktu)

▸ noun:  A city in central Mali.
▸ noun:  (figurative) Any proverbially distant or remote place.

Similar:
Mopti, Bamako, Touba, Sikasso, Kayes, Bankass, Matam, Segou, Banfora, Ségou, more...

Opposite:
here, nearby, present, accessible

Phrases:
Timbuktu Manuscripts, University of Timbuktu, Sixty Six to Timbuktu, Pashalik of Timbuktu, History of Timbuktu, more...

Adjectives:
fabled, legendary, century, ancient, taghaza, medieval, modern, mysterious, beloved, fourteenth, musical


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Similar:
Mopti, Bamako, Touba, Sikasso, Kayes, Bankass, Matam, Segou, Banfora, Ségou, more...

Opposite:
here, nearby, present, accessible

Phrases:
Timbuktu Manuscripts, University of Timbuktu, Sixty Six to Timbuktu, Pashalik of Timbuktu, History of Timbuktu, Talking Timbuktu, timbuktu country, like timbuktu, more...

Adjectives:
fabled, legendary, century, ancient, taghaza, medieval, modern, mysterious, beloved, fourteenth, musical



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