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I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.
Sydney Brenner

Meaning of "Johannesburg" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF JOHANNESBURG

Johannesburg  [dʒəʊˈhænɪsˌbɜːɡ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF JOHANNESBURG

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Johannesburg is a noun.
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WHAT DOES JOHANNESBURG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Johannesburg

Johannesburg

Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Joburg, Joni, eGoli or Joeys, abbreviated as JHB, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa. The city is one of the 50 largest urban agglomerations in the world, and is also the world's largest city not situated on a river, lake, or coastline. While Johannesburg is not one of South Africa's three capital cities, it is the seat of the Constitutional Court, which has the final word on interpretation of South Africa's constitution, and is the provincial capital of Gauteng. The city is the source of a large-scale gold and diamond trade, due to its location on the mineral-rich Witwatersrand range of hills. According to the 2007 Community Survey, the population of the city of Johannesburg was 4,434,827 and the population of the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Area was 7,151,447. A broader definition of the Johannesburg metropolitan area, including Ekurhuleni, the West Rand, Soweto and Lenasia, has a population of 10,267,700.

Definition of Johannesburg in the English dictionary

The definition of Johannesburg in the dictionary is a city in N South Africa; the capital of Gauteng province: South Africa's largest city and chief industrial centre; grew with the establishment in 1886 of the gold-mining industry; University of Witwatersrand. Pop: 1 009 036.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH JOHANNESBURG


Brandenburg
ˈbrændənˌbɜːɡ
coburg
ˈkəʊˌbɜːɡ
Gettysburg
ˈɡɛtɪzˌbɜːɡ
Gothenburg
ˈɡɒθənˌbɜːɡ
Gutenberg
ˈɡuːtənˌbɜːɡ
Hapsburg
ˈhæpsˌbɜːɡ
Harrisburg
ˈhærɪsˌbɜːɡ
Heidelberg
ˈhaɪdəlˌbɜːɡ
Louisbourg
ˈluːɪsˌbɜːɡ
Luxembourg
ˈlʌksəmˌbɜːɡ
Magdeburg
ˈmæɡdəˌbɜːɡ
Marburg
ˈmɑːˌbɜːɡ
Mecklenburg
ˈmɛklənˌbɜːɡ
Nuremberg
ˈnjʊərəmˌbɜːɡ
Oldenburg
ˈəʊldənˌbɜːɡ
Petersburg
ˈpiːtəzˌbɜːɡ
Pietermaritzburg
ˌpiːtəˈmærɪtsˌbɜːɡ
Venusberg
ˈviːnəsˌbɜːɡ
Vicksburg
ˈvɪksˌbɜːɡ
Williamsburg
ˈwɪljəmzˌbɜːɡ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE JOHANNESBURG

John Barleycorn
John Birch Society
John Bull
John Bullish
John Bullishness
John Bullism
John Chrysostom
John Doe
John Dory
John Hancock
John Henry
John Hop
John I
John II
John III
John IV
John Lewis list
John o´Groats

WORDS THAT END LIKE JOHANNESBURG

Augsburg
burg
Duisburg
Flensburg
Freiburg
Gottfried von Strassburg
Habsburg
Hamburg
homburg
Limburg
Ludwigsburg
Luxemburg
Pietersburg
Pressburg
Regensburg
Saint Petersburg
Salzburg
Strassburg
Tilburg
Wolfsburg

Synonyms and antonyms of Johannesburg in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Johannesburg» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF JOHANNESBURG

Find out the translation of Johannesburg to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Johannesburg from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Johannesburg» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

约翰内斯堡
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Johannesburgo
570 millions of speakers

English

Johannesburg
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जोहानसबर्ग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جوهانسبرج
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Йоханнесбург
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Joanesburgo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জোহানেসবার্গ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Johannesburg
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Johannesburg
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Johannesburg
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ヨハネスブルク
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

요하네스 버그
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Johannesburg
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Johannesburg
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஜோகன்னஸ்பர்க்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जोहान्सबर्ग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Johannesburg
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Johannesburg
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Johannesburg
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Йоганнесбург
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Johannesburg
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Γιοχάνεσμπουργκ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Johannesburg
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Johannesburg
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Johannesburg
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Johannesburg

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «JOHANNESBURG»

The term «Johannesburg» is very widely used and occupies the 14.862 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «JOHANNESBURG» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Johannesburg

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9 QUOTES WITH «JOHANNESBURG»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Johannesburg.
1
Neill Blomkamp
I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.
2
Neill Blomkamp
Johannesburg is weird, because half of it is like Los Angeles. It feels like just wealthy parts of L.A. But half of it is severe slummy, something like Rio De Janiero or something. So it's kind of weird, because it's both happening at the same time.
3
Neill Blomkamp
In a lot of the really impoverished areas of Johannesburg you see these packets of cheesy puffs which are like 6 feet long and the width of a basketball, and they're transparent and they have like 10,000 cheesy puffs in them, and you can buy that for like 50 cents. It's kind of a weird treat that you'd see people having in the townships.
4
Sydney Brenner
I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.
5
Teresa Heinz
As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.
6
Jann Klose
South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, and before that, my family lived in Kenya in Nairobi where my brother was actually born, and my sister was born in Capetown. I spent the first 10 years of my life in South Africa.
7
Yannick Noah
Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
8
Trevor Rabin
I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my mom was a piano teacher and a painter, so it was kind of a creative environment, and it was kind of in my DNA.
9
Janet Suzman
Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JOHANNESBURG»

Discover the use of Johannesburg in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Johannesburg and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis
Complicating and contesting such characterizations, the contributors to this collection reassess classic theories of metropolitan modernity as they explore the experience of “city-ness” and urban life in post-apartheid South Africa.
Sarah Nuttall, Achille Mbembe, 2008
2
Johannesburg: The Bradt City Guide
This pocket-sized guide will give confidence to business and holiday travellers wanting to make the most of a visit to the major sites as well as Johannesburg's other attractions, including excellent museums telling the story of South ...
Lizzie Williams, 2007
3
Johannesburg: One City, Colliding Worlds
This intriguing study frames a view of the rapidly transforming city of Johannesburg and explores the new identities, bonds, and intimacies forming in the midst of, or in between, the new rigidities and spatial enclosures of the emerging ...
Lindsay Bremner, 2004
4
America's Johannesburg: Industrialization and Racial ...
In this critical analysis of why Birmingham became such a focal point, Bobby M. Wilson argues that AlabamaOs path to industrialism differed significantly from that in the North and Midwest.
Bobby M. Wilson, 2000
5
Emerging Johannesburg
StatsSA estimated that for 1996 the total economically active population in Johannesburg was 326,092, for Soweto 232,964, and for Randburg 173,456. In 1991, it was 842,899 for Johannesburg. Between 1991 and 1996, the average annual ...
Richard Tomlinson, Robert Beauregard, Lindsay Bremmer, 2014
6
Taming the Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape of ...
In Taming the Disorderly City, he provides a focused intellectual and political critique of the often-ambivalent urban dynamics that have emerged after the end of apartheid.
Martin J. Murray, 2008
7
Johannesburg: The Making and Shaping of the City
This books describes the history of the city from its days as a mining camp to its position of premier metropolis in Africa.
Keith Sidney Orrock Beavon, 2004
8
The Making of Global City Regions: Johannesburg, ...
The volume concludes with a summary of lessons learned.
Klaus Segbers, Simon Raiser, Krister Volkmann, 2007
9
City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg
The book shows how property-holding elites and their affluent middle-class allies have been able to maintain privileged life styles despite persistent demands from below for redress of long-standing grievances.
Martin J. Murray, 2011
10
Gandhi's Johannesburg: Birthplace of Satyagraha
During that decade, he made the streets and suburbs of the city his own, changing homes frequently and walking tirelessly.This evocative book captures Johannesburg's rich Gandhian legacy in words and pictures.
Eric Itzkin, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JOHANNESBURG»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Johannesburg is used in the context of the following news items.
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Elderly siblings injured in Johannesburg shack fire | The Citizen
A residents of an informal settlement in Denver, Johannesburg runs through shacks as a fire rages through them, 6 November 2014. Picture: ... «Citizen, Jul 15»
2
JHB firefighters: Stations will be empty for three hours per day
JOHANNESBURG - The night shift at the Johannesburg Central Fire Station has reported for duty after staff left at around 4pm refusing to work. «Eyewitness News, Jul 15»
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JOHANNESBURG: South Africans celebrate International Nelson …
JOHANNESBURG — South Africans honored the 67 years of former president Nelson Mandela's service to the country with 67 minutes of ... «Lexington Herald Leader, Jul 15»
4
Awarded: eTN added Clico Boutique Hotel in Johannesburg to THE …
The Clico Boutique Hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa, was nominated to be added to THE LIST by eTurboNews. Sending in the nomination ... «eTurboNews, Jul 15»
5
than 300 injured in train crash near Johannesburg - The Guardian
An injured passenger is helped to an ambulance at Booysens station near Johannesburg after a train collision in which more than 300 were ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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The Dose of Cool That Saved Johannesburg
Johannesburg was recently ranked the most popular place in Africa for young people aged 15 to 29 by the 2015 YouthfulCities Index, which ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
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Johannesburg train collision, July 2015
Editor's note: We're seeing reports of train crash in South Africa, near Johannesburg, with multiple injuries. Looking for confirmation. - Tom. End of note. «BreakingNews.com, Jul 15»
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Photos of kids on a trampoline in Johannesburg are the essence of joy
In the middle of the street, twisting bodies can be seen soaring through the air with no care in the world. Kids jump on huge trampolines set ... «Mashable, Jul 15»
9
Caring student helps Johannesburg orphans
Leigh Sweeney, a former Gleniffer High School pupil, travelled to Johannesburg with her classmates to put the skills they have learnt on the ... «TheGazette.co.uk, Jul 15»
10
Soweto cyclists bring new style to streets of Johannesburg - US News
In this photo taken Thursday, July 9, 2015 a couple of cyclists socialize at the Melville, Johannesburg cycle-bar nicknamed, "The Fishbowl". «U.S. News & World Report, Jul 15»

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