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

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

By the way, as we slept the Bassein mosquitoes did come on board, and answered their description—they do raise lumps!

From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon)

We must now return to the Irrawaddy expedition sent up at the same time that Sir A Campbell marched by land, and our expedition went up the Bassein river.

From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick

I still think, however, that those mosquitoes of the Bassein Creek are incomparable.

From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon)