Bassein

American  

[buh-seyn] / bəˈseɪn /

noun

1. a city in southwestern Myanmar (Burma), near the mouth of the Irrawaddy River.

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Bassein British  

/ bɑːˈseɪn /

noun

1. a city in Myanmar, on the Irrawaddy delta: a port on the Bassein River (the westernmost distributary of the Irrawaddy). Pop: 231 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Three other universities at Bassein, Moulmein and Mandalay were padlocked by the government.

From Time Magazine Archive

One force crossed the vein-like little streams that slice up lower Burma and reached Bassein, just over the coastal hills from the Bay of Bengal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hearing that a force was posted, some fifteen miles away, to intercept the detachment that was marching from Bassein; Colonel Godwin, with a party, was sent off that night to endeavour to surprise it.

From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by Overend, William Heysham

The next day we arrived at Bassein, one of the principal towns in the Burman Empire.

From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick

Were the whole power in one hand, we should certainly lose Surat, and probably Bassein and Salsette, and have to fight hard to hold Bombay.

From At the Point of the Bayonet A Tale of the Mahratta War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)