Surat
noun
a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India: first British settlement in India 1612.
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Surat
American
[soo-rat, soor-uht]
/ sʊˈræt, ˈsʊər ət /
noun
Surat
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British
/ sʊˈræt, ˈsʊərət /
noun
surat
2
British
/ sjuːˈræt /
noun
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The Queen was shown boarding a Gripen on 8 October at an airfield in Surat Thani province, southern Thailand, while King Maha Vajiralongkorn watched from the ground.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Jagdish Khunt, president of the Surat Diamond Association in the western Indian state of Gujarat, said there would be a drop in orders in the short term.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2025
Most of the rough diamonds mined in Botswana are shipped to manufacturing hubs like Surat, India, where they are cut and polished into the shiny crystals that greatly increase their value.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
"We have filed an appeal challenging the Surat district court’s order," Gandhi’s lawyer, Pankaj Champaneri, told Reuters.
From Reuters ● Apr. 25, 2023
Remember, I wrote to Nellie Roe telling her, if fortune smiles on us, we should return to England by the first ship that sails from Surat after we have adjusted accounts with Edwards.
From The Great Mogul by Louis Tracy
Then there were some more words in which d'Alcacer's attentive ear caught the word "surat."
From The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows by Joseph Conrad
I want you to start at once for the camp, with surat for the Kavitan.
From An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad
Tell me out of the old man’s surat where you read so often at night.”
From Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river by Joseph Conrad
There has been a surat delivered to Lakamba.
From An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad
In a certain surat of the koran he mentions the names of twenty-eight of the prophets of Israel, praising each and all of them.
From Foundations of World Unity by `Abdu'l-Bahá
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