PUNJAB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Punjab mean? 

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

1. a historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUNJAB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("Punjab" 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)

Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Pakistan; West Pakistan (a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)

 Context examples 

A clinical trial conducted in Pakistan’s Punjab province found that vitamin D3 supplements added to regular treatment for malnutrition led to significant improvements in a group of 185 malnourished children aged 2‒58 months.

(Vitamin D3 boost helps treat child malnutrition, SciDev.Net)

There I wandered about for many a year, and at last came back to the Punjab, where I lived mostly among the natives and picked up a living by the conjuring tricks that I had learned.

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