Trivandrum

/ trɪˈvændrəm /

noun

1. a city in S India, capital of Kerala, on the Malabar Coast: made capital of the kingdom of Travancore in 1745; University of Kerala (1937). Pop: 744 739 (2001) Local official nameThiruvananthapuram

Example Sentences

I’m thinking about works like Balkrishna Doshi’s edenic campus for the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore; and Chittagong University, in Bangladesh, by Muzharul Islam; and Laurie Baker’s decorative Center for Development Studies in Trivandrum, India, whose brick walls are perforated by latticed openings, called jali, that cast patterned shadows and let air circulate indoors.

From New York Times

The baby has been taken back from the adoptive parents and bought back to Trivandrum.

From BBC

At one point in their trip, King and his wife journeyed to the southern tip of the country, to the city of Trivandrum in the state of Kerala, and visited with high-school students whose families had been untouchables.

From The Guardian

One afternoon, King and his wife journeyed to the southern tip of the country, to the city then known as Trivandrum in the state of Kerala, and visited with high school students whose families had been untouchables.

From New York Times

When she left the hospital in Trivandrum where Preman had spent the last six months of his life, she was missed.

From BBC