Kochi
Americannoun
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a seaport on central Shikoku, in SW Japan.
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Formerly Cochin. a seaport in W Kerala, in SW India: first European fort in India, built by Portuguese in 1503.
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a port in SW Japan, on central Shikoku on Urado Bay. Pop: 326 490 (2002 est)
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another name for Cochin
Example Sentences
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The Lavan docked in the south-west Indian port of Kochi on Wednesday.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
The horse, whose name translates to Glorious Spring, debuted in 1998 at the Kochi Racecourse.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025
In the town of Kuroshio, also in Kochi, elderly residents and others were urged to evacuate voluntarily to safer locations.
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2024
Preliminary interviews with officials in Kochi, India, confirmed the credit for their resilience was due to many of the factors the team had identified in the data.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2024
He added that Arata Kochi, as head of the TB program for WHO, had come to recognize this threat and had introduced the idea of a DOTS-plus strategy.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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