Bombay

American  

[bom-bey] / bɒmˈbeɪ /

noun

1. Mumbai.

2. a former state in W India: divided in 1960 into the Gujarat and Maharashtra states.

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Bombay British  

/ bɒmˈbeɪ /

noun

1. the former English name of Mumbai

2. a breed of black short-haired medium-sized cat

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Bombay Cultural  

1. City in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea. It is now officially called Mumbai.

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India's second-largest city, after Calcutta, Bombay is the only natural deep-water harbor in western India.

Example Sentences

At IIT Bombay - one of India's top technology institutes that was once a near-guaranteed passport to prosperity - fresh graduates are leaving with lower salaries than their predecessors.

From BBC

At the start of this year, a video popped up on social media sites in India showing the chief executive of the Bombay Stock Exchange, Sundararaman Ramamurthy, giving investors advice on which stocks to buy.

From BBC

Fearful of a future shackled to the home, Charu leaves at 16 to find her way in Bombay, the first of this pilgrim soul’s reinventions.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yes, Gulf statelets like Aden were overseen by the Bombay presidency, and yes, the India rupee was, for the most part, their legal tender.

From The Wall Street Journal

If you were born in what once was Bombay, but raised a family in L.A., happy new year.

From Los Angeles Times