Bombay

[ bom-bey ]

noun

1. Mumbai ( def ).
2. a former state in W India: divided in 1960 into the Gujarat and Maharashtra states.

Bombay

/ bɒmˈbeɪ /

noun

1. See Mumbai
   the former English name of Mumbai
2. a breed of black short-haired medium-sized cat

Bombay

1. City in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea . It is now officially called Mumbai.

Notes

India's second-largest city, after Calcutta , Bombay is the only natural deep-water harbor in western India.

Example Sentences

Born in Pune, near Bombay in India, Nagrani moved to California as a child.

From The Daily Beast

D'Souza, 53, is a Bombay-born author and "documentarian" who served as an adviser for President Ronald Reagan.

From The Daily Beast

“New York looks like Bombay,” Williams told the Associated Press in 1989.

From The Daily Beast

First, Emmerson ranges widely, from Germany to Paris, from Bombay to Tokyo.

From The Daily Beast

To the very eve of Partition, Jinnah was acquiring prime property in Karachi and Bombay.

From The Daily Beast

In the next year his mother returned to India with both her children, and the boy's next two years were spent at and near Bombay.

From Project Gutenberg

Here it broke into the Calcutta and Bombay branches, each nearly a thousand miles in length.

From Project Gutenberg

They wanted Papa and Mamma, gone to Bombay beyond the seas, and their grief while it lasted was without remedy.

From Project Gutenberg

Even Judy's appeals to "try and remember about Bombay" failed to quicken him.

From Project Gutenberg

Yes, he knew they were to call at Bombay, which was a great harbour from which ships were frequently returning to England.

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