Xanadu
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Mandarin 上都 (Shàngdū).
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uː
[edit] Proper noun
Xanadu
- The summer capital of Kublai Khan's empire
- 1816: — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
- In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree
- In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
- 1816: — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan