Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northern India on the Ganges River southeast of Delhi. The entire British garrison, including civilians, were massacred during the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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- proper noun A large city in
India , in the state ofUttar Pradesh .
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Examples
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KANPUR: One student was killed and 14 others injured when the roof of their classroom at a Maharajpur junior high school, about 35 km from Kanpur, collapsed following rains on
The Times of India 2010
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For women the intra-uterine contraceptive device popularly knoVa as the "loop" has been found to be suitable to Indian conditions and a factory at Kanpur is making 30,000 loops a day.
Focus on India 1967
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I was born and raised in Kanpur, which is located right on the Ganges River.
NYT > Home Page 2011
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I was born and raised in Kanpur, which is located right on the Ganges River.
NYT > Home Page 2011
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He cites cities such as Kanpur, Aurangabad, Kochi and Nagpur - mere dots for distant businesses in Canada - as potential centres where wealthy customers would be happy to pay good money for high-quality material.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Narayanan Madhavan 2010
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He cites cities such as Kanpur, Aurangabad, Kochi and Nagpur - mere dots for distant businesses in Canada - as potential centres where wealthy customers would be happy to pay good money for high-quality material.
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Some others such as Kanpur have somehow lost their way.
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The reason you're seeing newer hardware and software in this space is because they can exploit over 30 years of work in algorithms that can solve diverse kinds of problems in very efficient ways, says Prof. Manindra Agrawal, the head of the computer sciences department at IIT Kanpur.
Definitely, Maybe Rohin Dharmakumar 2010
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Not: I am meeting my cousin from Kanpur who's stopping in town after her sojourn in Switzerland.
For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011
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I remember him making significant contributions to student activities at IIT Kanpur as the audio secretary.
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