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Poona

/ ˈpuːnə /

noun

  1. a city in W India, in W Maharashtra: under British rule served as the seasonal capital of the Bombay Presidency. Pop: 2 540 069 (2001)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

When you have visited Poona, and have listened to the Gayan Samaj, we shall resume our present conversation.

Battle of Kirkee and battle and capture of Poona—November 1817.

My grandmother and mother, and all the family, were in those woods behind Poona at time of the battle at Kirkee.

In those days there were much fewer houses in Poona than there are now, and many more wandering gipsies, and such like.

In the neighbourhood of Poona, Mr. Elphinstone says, there are about 150 different castes, and in Bengal they are very numerous.

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