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Bombay

Bombay

41 3.5
A former English name for the city now called Mumbai on India's west coast
  • proper noun
  • /bɑmˈbeɪ/
translation icon : Bombay
  • And yeah, I think a lot of my work is just based on the fact that I grew up in a different culture, in my case Bombay, now called Mumbai, India.
  • Bombay (now called Mumbai)
  • Bombay and Madras
  • Bombay and Calcutta

And that's such a that that had to be six weeks from Paris to Bombay.

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Examples

  • And so this case deals with a contract for the sale of cotton shipped from Bombay in India.

  • The divisions in Bombay and Delhi can hardly keep the peace now.

    Gandhi (1982)

  • Drive all night if necessary, I want the truck in Bombay tomorrow morning.

    Hanuman (1998)

  • I was on the phone to him in Bombay and he was in Los Angeles.

  • So we just made it here to the Bombay Canteen.

  • The same day, Clinton flew to the country's financial capital, Bombay, the last stopover.

    Academic text (2002)

  • Adani's journey began as a diamond sorter in Bombay after dropping out of school as a teenager.

  • Afterward, it heads nonstop for either Delhi or Bombay, alternating between the two cities, depending on the day.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Dawud Mahomed of Bombay House was one of the richest traders in Durban.

    Academic text (2005)

  • I want to visit the Gateway of India when I travel to Bombay next month.

Synonyms

Mumbai
vsBombay
34 2.3

A large city in western India on the Arabian Sea coast with the country's most people

is the older English name formerly used for this same city

Compounds

Bombay ceiba
9.9

A large tropical tree with a rough trunk and seed pods full of soft fibers used for pillows

Bombay hemp
8.7

A plant that produces strong fibers used to make rope and cloth

Surface Forms

Bombay main

Etymology

The word Bombay likely comes from Portuguese parts Bom 'good' and Bahia 'bay'. That 'good bay' image makes sense because it was a safe harbour for ships, so sailors and traders used the name and the English kept it for the city. Today the city is officially called Mumbai, but Bombay was the older English name.