CALCUTTA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Calcutta mean? • CALCUTTA (noun)
The noun CALCUTTA has 1 sense:
1. the largest city in India and one of the largest cities in the world; located in eastern India; suffers from poverty and overcrowding
Familiarity information: CALCUTTA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CALCUTTA (noun)
Meaning:
The largest city in India and one of the largest cities in the world; located in eastern India; suffers from poverty and overcrowding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Calcutta; Kolkata
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Calcutta" is a part of...):
Bharat; India; Republic of India (a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)
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