Aligarh

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

/ ˈɑ liˌgʌr, ˈæl əˌgɑr /

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noun

a city in W Uttar Pradesh, in N India.

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Words nearby Aligarh

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How to use Aligarh in a sentence

It is an important station on the Oudh & Rohilkhand railway, with a junction for Aligarh.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7|Various
From Agra to Aligarh; and from Aligarh he was asked to more places than he could 154 visit.
Experiments on Animals|Stephen Paget
We came in sight of Aligarh shortly before daybreak on the 5th October.
Forty-one years in India|Frederick Sleigh Roberts
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

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

/ (ˌɑːlɪˈɡɜː, ˌælɪ-) /

noun

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

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