Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Hindustan, an administrative division of a province.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun India A district or local division, as of a province.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
district or localdivision , as of aprovince , inIndia .
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Examples
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Downs the pilot came on board, from whom they received the news of the attempt recently made by Oxford on the life of the Queen; and here the captain, anxious to lose no time in reaching London, quitted the vessel as it entered the Thames, "the sources of which famous river, I was informed, were near a place called Cirencester, eighty-eight miles from London, in the _zillah_ (county) of Gloucester."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various
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Daccah zillah; depositions on the subject were obtained from nine different parties.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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On the 16th and 17th of May, 1833, a fall of fish occurred in the zillah of Futtehpoor, about three miles north of the Jumna, after a violent storm of wind and rain.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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On the 16th and 17th of May, 1833, a fall of fish occurred in the zillah of Futtehpoor, about three miles north of the Jumna, after a violent storm of wind and rain.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Mail (will not be published) (required) zillah: Bingo - the corpse is now stirring up trouble at one step re ... carallel: Oh, my.
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Mail (will not be published) (required) wyrdling: feel like i'm just starting. i'm cracking again. but i thi ... zillah: Did one (or both) or your parents cheat?
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