Ganges

Examples

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• This is the divinely sanctioned starting point for pilgrimage up the Ganges.

  Ocean to Sky (2019)

• The Ganges River is holy because it flows from Shiva's hair.

  Holy Ghost (2014)

• So here when when we speak about this Ganges water basin, we would speak about the Ganges River.

• Float them down the Ganges on a bed of flowers?

  The Bucket List (2007)

• Once the ashes are on their way to the Ganges, the ritual is complete.

  Academic text (2007)

• The incredible thing about the Ganges River, the Ganga, is it really is a living, breathing river.

  Ocean to Sky (2019)

• He should buy you Indian rubies and a villa in Calcutta overlooking the Ganges.

  The Lost Weekend (1945)

• Even high-volume rivers such as the Colorado, the Ganges, and the Nile have been reduced, in some places, to polluted trickles.

  Academic text (2007)

• Fertile soils in the floodplains of eastern China and the Ganges River have maintained high population densities over millennia.

  Academic text (2006)

• The country straddles the floodplain's confluence of three great rivers: the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna.

  Academic text (1993)

Synonyms

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Ganges River

vsGanges

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A major river that starts in the Himalayas and flows to the Bay of Bengal, sacred to Hindus

is the shorter proper name without the word river

Compounds

G

Ganges River

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A major river that starts in the Himalayas and flows to the Bay of Bengal, sacred to Hindus

Surface Forms

Etymology