Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of eastern India on the Hooghly River opposite Kolkata. It is a major industrial center.

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  • proper noun A large city in India, in the state of West Bengal.

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Examples

  • HOWRAH: Schools in Howrah do not seem to have learned a lesson even after the abduction and gruesome murder of seven-year-old Yash Lakhotia.

    The Times of India 2010

  • AMTA (HOWRAH), 27 DEC: To save people of three blocks in Howrah from Milan Sangha, a Non Government Organisation (NGO) has taken up a project to build embankment on water level on eastern Arizona's San Carlos Lake is so low the irrigation district that takes water from the lake for deliveries to Pinal County

    WN.com - Articles related to Concern over low per capita water storage 2010

  • HOWRAH: Schools in Howrah do not seem to have learned a lesson even after the abduction and gruesome murder of seven-year-old Yash Lakhotia.

    The Times of India 2010

  • HOWRAH: All hell broke loose on the Howrah court premises on Monday morning, with a teenage girl's relatives and lawyers joining hands to thrash the disciples of a Tripura-based godman.

    The Times of India 2010

  • AMTA (HOWRAH), 27 DEC: To save people of three blocks in Howrah from Milan Sangha, a Non Government Organisation (NGO) has taken up a project to build embankment on

    WN.com - Articles related to Concern over low per capita water storage 2010

  • HOWRAH: Schools in Howrah do not seem to have learned a lesson even after the abduction and gruesome murder of seven-year-old Yash Lakhotia.

    The Times of India 2010

  • HOWRAH: Schools in Howrah do not seem to have learned a lesson even after the abduction and gruesome murder of seven-year-old Yash Lakhotia.

    The Times of India 2010

  • AMTA (HOWRAH), 27 DEC: To save people of three blocks in Howrah from Milan Sangha, a Non Government Organisation (NGO) has taken up a project to build embankment on water level on eastern Arizona's San Carlos Lake is so low the irrigation district that takes water from the lake for deliveries to Pinal County

    WN.com - Articles related to Concern over low per capita water storage 2010

  • Neighbours found his body three days later, dumped among bushes near the waterfront in Howrah, Kolkata's twin city.

    Heartache for India's new rich as brutal kidnappers target their children 2011

  • Left, a French priest, the founder of Howrah South Point, a home for poor and handicapped children, checked the feet of a child suffering from polio, Jan. 29.

    India's Polio Fight 2011

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