Aligarh

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

noun

a city in W Uttar Pradesh, in N India.

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Historical Examples of aligarh

From Agra to Aligarh; and from Aligarh he was asked to more places than he could 154 visit.
Experiments on Animals
Stephen Paget
Father, can I not go to the university at Aligarh to learn more of our Faith?
In Kali's Country
Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets
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
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
Aligarh College now has an enrollment of seven hundred and four, more than a hundred of whom are law students.
The Old World and Its Ways
William Jennings Bryan

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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