GANGES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ganges mean? 

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

1. an Asian river; rises in the Himalayas and flows east into the Bay of Bengal; a sacred river of the Hindus

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GANGES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Asian river; rises in the Himalayas and flows east into the Bay of Bengal; a sacred river of the Hindus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Ganges; Ganges River

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

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)

 Context examples 

For example, in Bangladesh, deep wells were introduced in the Ganges Delta to draw water clear of bacterial and viral pathogens, but this inadvertently led to exposure to toxic metals.

(Experts warn of cardiovascular risk from heavy metal pollution, University of Cambridge)

Declining flows will adversely affect farming communities across the region as well as the food needs of 1.5 billion people living downstream of 10 major rivers, including the Ganges, Yangtze, Tsang Po and the Indus.

(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)

We passed over five or six rivers, many degrees broader and deeper than the Nile or the Ganges: and there was hardly a rivulet so small as the Thames at London-bridge.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"And I shall see it again," he said aloud, "in dreams when I sleep by the Ganges: and again in a more remote hour—when another slumber overcomes me—on the shore of a darker stream!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)