Bombay

[ bom-bey ]

/ bɒmˈbeɪ /

Mumbai.

a former state in W India: divided in 1960 into the Gujarat and Maharashtra states.

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Born in Pune, near Bombay in India, Nagrani moved to California as a child.

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“New York looks like Bombay,” Williams told the Associated Press in 1989.

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First, Emmerson ranges widely, from Germany to Paris, from Bombay to Tokyo.

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To the very eve of Partition, Jinnah was acquiring prime property in Karachi and Bombay.

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The turning point in table-tennis history was in Bombay in 1952.

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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.

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He believed from the best information he could get that he would reach Bombay in eighteen days.

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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.

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Bombay

/ (bɒmˈbeɪ) /

the former English name of Mumbai

a breed of black short-haired medium-sized cat

Bombay

City in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea. It is now officially called Mumbai.

India's second-largest city, after Calcutta, Bombay is the only natural deep-water harbor in western India.