CALCUTTA

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 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)

Sense 1

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)

Derivation:

Calcuttan (of or relating to or characteristic of Calcutta or its inhabitants)

 Context examples 

"Plain! You? Not at all. You are much too pretty, as well as too good, to be grilled alive in Calcutta."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A wild-type zebrafish line, the stock of which was obtained from an area east of Calcutta in a district called Nadia.

(Nadia Zebrafish, NCI Thesaurus)

To be sure he had nothing to do with any other part of the world, and had a good deal to do with that part; being entirely in the India trade, whatever that was (I had floating dreams myself concerning golden shawls and elephants' teeth); having been at Calcutta in his youth; and designing now to go out there again, in the capacity of resident partner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The last squire dragged out his existence there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he established a large practice.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)