BRAHMAPUTRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Brahmaputra mean? 

• BRAHMAPUTRA (noun)
  The noun BRAHMAPUTRA has 1 sense:

1. an Asian river; flows into the Bay of Bengal

  Familiarity information: BRAHMAPUTRA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAHMAPUTRA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Asian river; flows into the Bay of Bengal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Brahmaputra; Brahmaputra River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Brahmaputra" is a part of...):

Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)

Bangla Desh; Bangladesh; East Pakistan; People's Republic of Bangladesh (a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971. In local language, 'Bangladesh' means Land of the Bengalis ('Bangla' means Bengali, 'desh' means land or country))

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)