Hyderabad

Or Hai·dar·a·bad

[hahy-der-uh-bahd, -bad, hahy-druh-]

noun

1. a former state in S India, now part of Andhra Pradesh, Mysore, and Maharashtra.

2. a city in S central India, the capital of Telangana and the temporary capital of Andhra Pradesh, in S India.

3. a city in SE Pakistan, on the Indus River.

Hyderabad

/ ˈhaɪdrə-, -ˌbæd, ˈhaɪdərəˌbɑːd /

noun

1. a city in S central India, capital of Andhra Pradesh state and capital of former Hyderabad state; university (1918). Pop: 3 449 878 (2001)

2. a former state of S India: divided in 1956 between the states of Andhra Pradesh, Mysore, and Maharashtra

3. a city in SW Pakistan, on the River Indus: seat of the University of Sind (1947). Pop: 1 392 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Police found that within four minutes of reaching ICICI, most of her money was funneled into 11 accounts at Sree Padmavathi Cooperative Bank, an affiliate of Federal Bank in Hyderabad city.

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The ripple effects of this have begun to be felt in cities like Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune – once epicentres of India's IT boom.

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Since the beginning of 2024, West Indies have won in Brisbane, England in Hyderabad and Sri Lanka at The Oval.

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If you exclude that afternoon on a flat pitch in Hyderabad, his economy throughout the rest of the tournament would have ranked among the best for pace bowlers in the competition…

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Not quite yet the heights of Hyderabad, but certainly the best century Pope has ever made in a home Test – and this was his third in successive matches in this country.

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