Ha·van·a 1 (h?-v?n??) The capital and largest city of Cuba, in the northwest part of the island country on the Gulf of Mexico. Founded on its present site in 1519, it became the capital of Spanish Cuba in 1552. The explosion of the US battleship Maine in Havana’s harbor in February 1898 was the immediate cause of the Spanish-American War.Ha·van?an adj. & n.Ha·van·a 2 (h?-v?n??)n. A cigar made in Cuba, especially one of fine quality.[After Havana1.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.Havana (h??væn?) n (Placename) the capital of Cuba, a port in the northwest on the Gulf of Mexico: the largest city in the Caribbean; founded in 1514 as San Cristóbal de la Habana by Diego Velásquez. Pop: 2 192 000 (2005 est). Spanish name: Habana Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014Ha?van?a (h??væn ?) n. 1. Spanish, Habana. the capital of Cuba, on the NW coast. 2,241,000. 2. a cigar made in Cuba or of Cuban tobacco. Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.