Gujarat

or Gu·je·rat

[ gooj-uh-raht, goo-juh- ]

noun

1. a region in W India, N of the Narmada River.
2. a state in W India, on the Arabian Sea. 75,685 sq. mi. (196,024 sq. km). : Gandhinagar.

Gujarat

/ ˌɡʊdʒəˈrɑːt /

noun

1. a state of W India: formed in 1960 from the N and W parts of the former Bombay State; one of India's most industrialized states. Capital: Gandhinagar. Pop: 50 596 992 (2001). Area: 196 024 sq km (75 268 sq miles)
2. a region of W India, north of the Narmada River: generally includes the areas north of Mumbai city where Gujarati is spoken

Example Sentences

Among other companies, in May, Maruti Suzuki tied up with three firms for producing oxygen generators, and MG Motors partnered with a Gujarat-based firm to help with oxygen production.

From Quartz

The company’s spiritual heart is now the town of Jamnagar, in the state of Gujarat—home to Reliance’s oil refinery complex, the largest in the world.

From Quartz

Some states—Kerala, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat—have agreed to give such students a priority, and two major cities, Mumbai and Bengaluru, have also started similar drives.

From Quartz

Two patients in a Gujarat hospital died because of oxygen shortages on Wednesday.

From Time

On April 1, the government in the western state of Gujarat shut down a couple of labs after it found that they were selling fake Covid-19 negative test results.

From Quartz

A week after “donating” several old shirts, I was in a tiny Gujarat village called Vamka with a relief team.

From The Daily Beast

I've seen fluorescent pants that women in Gujarat who wear only saris stare bemusedly at.

From The Daily Beast

After the 2001 quake in Gujarat, I spent a week working there and losing count of the piles of discarded old clothes.

From The Daily Beast

The BJP and friends have enough that taints them, in the killings in Mumbai in 1992–93 and Gujarat in 2002.

From The Daily Beast

Like now, when the state of Gujarat is gearing up to vote in December.

From The Daily Beast

The Gujarat Senate therefore counted the cost when it refused to bend before the storm.

From Project Gutenberg

In Gujarat about half the grain area is under millets or maize in ordinary years.

From Project Gutenberg

In Gujarat and the arid plains of the south-east Punjab the renowned herds almost disappeared.

From Project Gutenberg

Mahmud, the last of the Tughlak dynasty, being defeated in a battle outside the walls of Delhi, fled into Gujarat.

From Project Gutenberg

The Tapti drains about 250 m. of country, and is, in a commercial point of view, the most useful of the Gujarat rivers.

From Project Gutenberg