Ahmedabad

or Ah·mad·a·bad

[ ah-muhd-ah-bahd ]

/ ˌɑ məd ɑˈbɑd /

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noun

a city in E Gujarat, in W India, N of Mumbai: a former state capital.

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How to use Ahmedabad in a sentence

In Ahmedabad, where he works, the municipal corporation offers many of these initiatives as part of its heat action plan, the first in South Asia.
No power, no fans, no AC: The villagers fighting to survive India’s deadly heatwaves|Snigdha Poonam|July 5, 2022|MIT Technology Review
Even at 43,000 cases, Kerala’s healthcare, unlike in several metropolitan cities like Delhi and Ahmedabad, had not crumbled under the pressure.
Why does Kerala still have so many cases of Covid-19?|Manavi Kapur|August 6, 2021|Quartz
The situation alarmed Pathak, resident editor of a 98-year-old local newspaper Sandesh’s Ahmedabad edition.
The death counters: How journalists in Narendra Modi’s home state exposed India’s Covid-19 deception|Amanda Shendruk|May 27, 2021|Quartz
Sandesh journalists talked to sources at the biggest hospital in the state’s biggest city—the 1,200 bed Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad inaugurated by prime minister Narendra Modi in March 2019.
The death counters: How journalists in Narendra Modi’s home state exposed India’s Covid-19 deception|Amanda Shendruk|May 27, 2021|Quartz

The group already has 50-year leases to operate the airports in Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Mangaluru, Jaipur, Guwahati, and Thiruvananthapuram.
Will Adani’s newly created aviation empire survive the pandemic?|Niharika Sharma|September 22, 2020|Quartz
One such mob went to the lower-middle-class Muslim ghetto of Naroda-Patiya in Ahmedabad.
Mumbai Massacre Perpetrator's Sentence Affirmed|Dilip D’Souza|September 3, 2012|DAILY BEAST
In spite of my caution I consider the little institution I am conducting in Ahmedabad as the finest thing in the world.
Third class in Indian railways|Mahatma Gandhi
In Ahmedabad, another cotton manufacturing centre, about the same scale is in force.
Where Half The World Is Waking Up|Clarence Poe
So saying, Roger significantly tapped the handle of the tremendous weapon fashioned for him by an armorer at Ahmedabad.
The Great Mogul|Louis Tracy
We left Ahmedabad by the ten o'clock train, and reached Baroda at 4.30 in the afternoon.
Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water|Lady (Ethel Gwendoline [Moffatt]) Vincent
The canopy is of oak, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, precious now, as it has become a lost art to the workmen of Ahmedabad.
Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water|Lady (Ethel Gwendoline [Moffatt]) Vincent

British Dictionary definitions for Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad

Ahmadabad

/ (ˈɑːmədəˌbɑːd) /

noun

a city in W India, in Gujarat: famous for its mosque. Pop: 3 515 361 (2001)

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