Bombay

[ bom-bey ]

noun

1. Mumbai ( def ).
2. a former state in W India: divided in 1960 into the Gujarat and Maharashtra states.

Bombay

/ bɒmˈbeɪ /

noun

1. the former English name of Mumbai
2. a breed of black short-haired medium-sized cat

Bombay

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

Notes

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

Example Sentences

Sir Percival David was born into a wealthy family in Bombay in 1892 and inherited a baronetcy from his father, as well as ownership of the family company.

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Across three tables, at the city's Bombay Brasserie, sat councillors, party members and supporters.

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But apart from family dynamics, Saklatvala was also deeply influenced by the devastation caused by the bubonic plague in Bombay in the late 1890s.

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“Bombay was like a jungle, and I had walked in unarmed. It was one of the most frightening phases of my life… Guys did try and take advantage of my vulnerability,” she once said.

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Thomas Biggs arrived in India in 1842 and joined the Bombay Artillery as a captain in the British East India Company.

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