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KARTIK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Kartik mean?
• KARTIK (noun)
The noun KARTIK has 1 sense:
1. the eighth month of the Hindu calendar
Familiarity information: KARTIK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The eighth month of the Hindu calendar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Kartik; Karttika
Hypernyms ("Kartik" is a kind of...):
Hindu calendar month (any lunisolar month in the Hindu calendar)
Holonyms ("Kartik" is a part of...):
Hindu calendar (the lunisolar calendar governing the religious life of Hindus; an extra month is inserted after every month in which there are two new moons (once every three years))
Context examples
Kartik Sunagar, an author of the study and assistant professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, tells that the venom of spectacled cobra found in West Bengal is strongly neurotoxic while that of the same species in Arunachal Pradesh state is extremely cytotoxic.
(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)
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