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Cuttack

American  
[kuht-uhk] / ˈkʌt ək /

noun

  1. a city in E Odisha, in NE India.


Cuttack British  
/ kʌˈtæk /

noun

  1. a city in NE India, in E Odisha (formerly Orissa) near the mouth of the Mahanadi River: former state capital until 1948. Pop: 535 139 (2001)

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England were comprehensively beaten again in the second one-day international in Cuttack as India clinched the series with a match to spare.

From BBC Feb. 9, 2025

The woman was travelling from the state capital, Bhubaneswar, to its twin city Cuttack, with a journalist friend and her driver when their car was intercepted by three men travelling on a scooter.

From BBC Feb. 25, 2021

The board, based in Mumbai, operates from eight other cities representing the major linguistic centers: New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Guwahati and Cuttack.

From New York Times Jun. 19, 2012

Last week the people of Cuttack, 220 miles southwest of Calcutta, got a chance to test the truth of Nehru's warning.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hornbill abounds in Cuttack, and bears there the name of "Kuchila-Kai," or Kuchila-eater, from its partiality for the fruit of the Strychnus nux-vomica.

From Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

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