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Kaveri

American  
[kaw-vuh-ree, kah-] / ˈkɔ və ri, ˈkɑ- /
Also Cauvery

noun

  1. a river in S India, flowing SE from the Western Ghats in Karnatka state through Tamil Nadu state to the Bay of Bengal: sacred to the Hindus. 475 miles (765 km) long.


Kaveri British  
/ ˈkɔːvərɪ /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Cauvery

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Prior to the 11th Century, the Cholas had been one among the many squabbling powers that dotted the Kaveri floodplain, the great body of silt that flows through India's present-day state of Tamil Nadu.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025

“I do not do this for money,” Kaveri tells her “client.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2023

Kaveri, a young newlywed in the second volume, is an amateur sleuth with a love for Sherlock Holmes and an “inability to stop interrogating people when she felt things didn’t make sense.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2023

On the surface, that’s not an unreasonable response, says Kaveri Subrahmanyam, a developmental psychologist at California State University, Los Angeles, and associate director of the Children’s Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.

From The Verge • Oct. 28, 2021

Daily He bathed in the Kaveri, visited Shri Ranga, and danced in ecstasy.

From Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita by K???ad?sa Kavir?ja Gosv?mi