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[ bom-bey ] / bɒmˈbeɪ /
nounMumbai. a former state in W India: divided in 1960 into the Gujarat and Maharashtra states. Words nearby Bombaybombardier beetle, bombardon, bombast, bombastic, bombax family, Bombay, Bombay duck, Bombay hemp, Bombay Hills, bombazine, bomb bay Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for BombayBorn in Pune, near Bombay in India, Nagrani moved to California as a child. The Hot Designer Who Hates Fashion: VK Nagrani Triumphs His Own Way|Tom Teodorczuk|December 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST “New York looks like Bombay,” Williams told the Associated Press in 1989. The Political Passion of Robin Williams, From Reagan-Bashing to AIDS Prevention|Asawin Suebsaeng|August 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST First, Emmerson ranges widely, from Germany to Paris, from Bombay to Tokyo. Before the Fall: What Did the World Look Like in 1913?|Jacob Heilbrunn|June 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST To the very eve of Partition, Jinnah was acquiring prime property in Karachi and Bombay. Why Pakistan's Mohammed Ali Jinnah Was No Nelson Mandela|Kapil Komireddi|April 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The turning point in table-tennis history was in Bombay in 1952. Marty Reisman: The Magical Hustler Who Saved a Classic Game|Harold Evans|December 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST This interesting quartette became so exclusive that little attention was paid to other Bombay society. Oswald Langdon|Carson Jay Lee As we were not yet to start for the appointed meeting, we had plenty of spare time before us; so we proceeded to examine Bombay. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan|Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky Dharwar , a town in the S. of the Bombay Presidency, a place of considerable trade in a district noted for its cotton growing. The Nuttall Encyclopaedia|Edited by Rev. James Wood He believed from the best information he could get that he would reach Bombay in eighteen days. The Personal Life Of David Livingstone|William Garden Blaikie Why, she went on her lonesome to India and Japan, with nobody but her maid; and never put us hep until she landed in Bombay. The Place of Honeymoons|Harold MacGrath
British Dictionary definitions for Bombay
nounthe former English name of Mumbai a breed of black short-haired medium-sized cat Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for Bombay
City in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea. It is now officially called Mumbai. notes for BombayIndia's second-largest city, after Calcutta, Bombay is the only natural deep-water harbor in western India. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |