Aligarh

[ah-lee-guhr, al-uh-gahr]

noun

a city in W Uttar Pradesh, in N India.

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We came in sight of Aligarh shortly before daybreak on the 5th October.
Forty-one years in India
Frederick Sleigh Roberts
Father, can I not go to the university at Aligarh to learn more of our Faith?
In Kali's Country
Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets
But since the death of Sir Syed the congress idea is growing among the students of Aligarh.
The Old World and Its Ways
William Jennings Bryan
I want to go to our university at Aligarh where I can learn all about our Faith and about everything else, mother.
In Kali's Country
Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets
It is an important station on the Oudh & Rohilkhand railway, with a junction for Aligarh.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7
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British Dictionary definitions for aligarh

Aligarh

noun

a city in N India, in W Uttar Pradesh, with a famous Muslim university (1920). Pop: 667 732 (2001)

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