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GANGES RIVER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Ganges River mean?
• GANGES RIVER (noun)
The noun GANGES RIVER 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 RIVER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 River" 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)
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