Bassein

American  

[buh-seyn] / bəˈseɪn /

noun

1. a city in southwestern Myanmar (Burma), near the mouth of the Irrawaddy River.

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Bassein British  

/ bɑːˈseɪn /

noun

1. a city in Myanmar, on the Irrawaddy delta: a port on the Bassein River (the westernmost distributary of the Irrawaddy). Pop: 231 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Numerous torrents pour down from the two boundary ranges, and unite in the plains to form large streams, which fall into the chief streams of the district, which are the Irrawaddy, Hlaing and Bassein, all of them branches of the Irrawaddy.

From Project Gutenberg

The state came under the British government after the treaty of Bassein in 1802.

From Project Gutenberg

Martaban was taken on the 5th of April 1852, and Rangoon and Bassein shortly afterwards.

From Project Gutenberg

Three other universities at Bassein, Moulmein and Mandalay were padlocked by the government.

From Time Magazine Archive

One force crossed the vein-like little streams that slice up lower Burma and reached Bassein, just over the coastal hills from the Bay of Bengal.

From Time Magazine Archive