Calcutta
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4.4
- proper noun
- /kælˈkʌtə/
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Calcuta
- Such an arrangement would also reduce pressure on Calcutta's already overburdened port.
- Calcutta port
- Calcutta Medical College
- visit to Calcutta
She grew up in the slum in in Calcutta.
- She grew up in the slum in in Calcutta.
- So the Black Hole of Calcutta is a prison cell in an old Fort William in Calcutta in India.
- Saint Teresa of Calcutta, she once said, not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
- Did you also ask the opposition to join that very eminent a prophet in Calcutta, Karl Marx?
- It was just a simple nut in Calcutta Gandhi, you know, oldest people, just people that felt that they could do something.
Examples
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One of the other booksellers in Calcutta has made us an offer, and Mother has accepted it.
Fiction book (1999) -
Saint Teresa of Calcutta, she once said, not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
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OK, well, I was, I was born in Calcutta in India.
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And, and so I said I know what to do about this and I took him to Calcutta, Calcutta, India.
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I must leave from Calcutta... and soon.
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Our farm has died, so we are moving to Calcutta to become rich!
Fiction book (1992) -
So the Black Hole of Calcutta is a prison cell in an old Fort William in Calcutta in India.
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Oddly, the next day his email mentioned a visit to Calcutta next month.
Fiction book (2002) -
Am I to assume you'll be at the airport in Calcutta a week from tomorrow?
Fiction book (1992) -
I was born in Calcutta, a city rich in cultural heritage.
Synonyms
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2.6
A large city in eastern India that is the capital of West Bengal and was once called Calcutta
Compounds
A small prison cell in Fort William, Calcutta, where many British prisoners died overnight in 1756
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Calcutta comes from the older local name Kalikata, also seen as Kalkatta, in Bengali, which is linked to the goddess Kali ('a Hindu goddess'). A helpful way to remember it is to think of a place named for Kali, which became the city's English name, so Calcutta was the old name for today's Kolkata.