Bendigo

[ ben-di-goh ]

/ ˈbɛn dɪˌgoʊ /

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noun

a city in central Victoria in SE Australia: gold mining.

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Words nearby Bendigo

Bendectin, bended, bender, benderboard, Bendery, Bendigo, bending moment, bend one's elbow, bend over backwards, bends, bend sinister

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How to use Bendigo in a sentence

For comparison, they also scanned satellite imagery and found 17,000 residential solar panels in the town of Bendigo, just north of Melbourne in southern Australia.
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Men live through more in five minutes on that crest than they do in five years of Bendigo or Ballarat.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
In '54 the miners in the fields of Ballarat and Bendigo were in a state of intense ferment.
My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands|George Francis Train
Why, my dear fellow, I couldn't tell you what sort it was at Bendigo!
Denis Dent|Ernest W. Hornung

And perhaps you have forgotten what you said yourself about him at Bendigo.
The Book of the Bush|George Dunderdale
Thus you live 'on Bendigo,' but 'in' or 'at' Sandhurst--the latter being the new name for the old goldfield town.
Town Life in Australia|R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny

British Dictionary definitions for Bendigo

Bendigo

/ (ˈbɛndɪˌɡəʊ) /

noun

a city in SE Australia, in central Victoria: founded in 1851 after the discovery of gold. Pop: 68 715 (2001)

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