Hyderabad

Or Hai·dar·a·bad

[hahy-der-uh-bahd, -bad, hahy-druh-]

noun

1. a former state in S India, now part of Andhra Pradesh, Mysore, and Maharashtra.

2. a city in S central India, the capital of Telangana and the temporary capital of Andhra Pradesh, in S India.

3. a city in SE Pakistan, on the Indus River.

Hyderabad

/ ˈhaɪdrə-, -ˌbæd, ˈhaɪdərəˌbɑːd /

noun

1. a city in S central India, capital of Andhra Pradesh state and capital of former Hyderabad state; university (1918). Pop: 3 449 878 (2001)

2. a former state of S India: divided in 1956 between the states of Andhra Pradesh, Mysore, and Maharashtra

3. a city in SW Pakistan, on the River Indus: seat of the University of Sind (1947). Pop: 1 392 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Forty-five Indian pilgrims have been killed after the bus they were travelling in caught fire in an accident near Medina in Saudi Arabia, the police commissioner of India's Hyderabad city has said.

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England have won the first Test on all five of their overseas tours under Stokes, including all-timers against Pakistan in Rawalpindi and India in Hyderabad.

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Police found that within four minutes of reaching ICICI, most of her money was funneled into 11 accounts at Sree Padmavathi Cooperative Bank, an affiliate of Federal Bank in Hyderabad city.

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The ripple effects of this have begun to be felt in cities like Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune – once epicentres of India's IT boom.

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Since the beginning of 2024, West Indies have won in Brisbane, England in Hyderabad and Sri Lanka at The Oval.

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