KOLKATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kolkata mean? 

• KOLKATA (noun)
  The noun KOLKATA 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: KOLKATA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KOLKATA (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 ("Kolkata" 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)