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# cordoba

«cordoba» in Mova's school dictionary: **a historic city in southern Spain, famous for its great…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun, a name (Córdoba — a city; a córdoba, córdobas — money)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) Córdoba is a historic city in southern Spain, famous for its great mosque-cathedral (the Mezquita). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cordoba/#m1)

2) (a name) Córdoba is also a big city in Argentina. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cordoba/#m2)

3) (money) The córdoba is the money of Nicaragua. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cordoba/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, Córdoba in Spain was one of the largest and most learned cities in Europe about a thousand years ago, when it was ruled by Muslims; Muslims, Christians and Jews lived there. In geography, the Argentine Córdoba is that country's second-largest city. It is a Spanish name, not an English word.

### examples

- Córdoba is a city in the south of Spain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cordoba/#x1)
- The great mosque of Córdoba later became a cathedral. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cordoba/#x2)
- Córdoba in Argentina has a famous old university. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cordoba/#x3)
- The price was 50 córdobas in the market in Nicaragua. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cordoba/#x4)
- About a thousand years ago Córdoba had huge libraries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cordoba/#x5)
- We visited Córdoba and Seville on our holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cordoba/#x6)

### note

Written with a capital C and an accent (Córdoba) in careful writing; pronounced «KOR-do-ba». There is also an English word «cordovan», a kind of leather first made in Córdoba.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cordoba» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cordoba/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.