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Cuttack

American  
[kuht-uhk] / ˈkʌt ək /

noun

  1. a city in E Odisha, in NE India.


Cuttack British  
/ kʌˈtæk /

noun

  1. a city in NE India, in E Odisha (formerly Orissa) near the mouth of the Mahanadi River: former state capital until 1948. Pop: 535 139 (2001)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The first match was in Nagpur on Thursday, the second 500 miles away in Cuttack on Sunday and the third a two-hour-40-minute flight away three days later.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2025

Sounds of ambulance sirens have been going off every 30 minutes outside the trauma centre in the SCB hospital in the city of Cuttack - where critically injured passengers have been wheeled in.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2023

The board, based in Mumbai, operates from eight other cities representing the major linguistic centers: New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Guwahati and Cuttack.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2012

Then Patel took a train to Cuttack, capital of Orissa.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hornbill abounds in Cuttack, and bears there the name of "Kuchila-Kai," or Kuchila-eater, from its partiality for the fruit of the Strychnus nuxvomica.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Sir James Emerson Tennent

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