astana

1. 1.

   remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998

   SynonymsAkmolacapital of Kazakhstan

   Broadernational capital

Other forms of astana

plural

astanas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about astana

What does astana mean?

astana means "remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998".

How many syllables are in astana?

astana has 3 syllables: a-sta-na. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for astana?

Close synonyms include Akmola, capital of Kazakhstan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is astana a common word?

astana is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.