Kanara

American  

[kuh-nahr-uh, kah-ner-uh] / kəˈnɑr ə, ˈkɑ nər ə /

Or Canara

noun

1. a region in SW India, on the Deccan Plateau. About 60,000 sq. mi. (155,400 sq. km).

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Kanara British  

/ kəˈnɑːrə /

noun

1. a region of SW India, in Karnataka on the Deccan Plateau and the W Coast. Area: about 155 000 sq km (60 000 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

HONAVAR, or Onore, a seaport of British India, in the North Kanara district of Bombay.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

This great architect, but very mediocre archeologist, proclaimed at the very beginning of his scientific career that "all the cave temples of Kanara, without exception, were built between the fifth and the tenth centuries."

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)

I have never made any measurements of wild boars, but Colonel Peyton—a first-rate authority—writing in the "Kanara Gazetteer," says that some are to be found measuring forty inches high, and six feet long.

From Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Elliot, Robert H. (Robert Henry)

This theory became generally accepted, when suddenly Dr. Bird found a brass plate in a certain Kanara monument, called a tope.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)

In Kanara 51 bears were killed between 1856 and 1882, so we have a total then of 274 bears for these two districts alone.

From Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Elliot, Robert H. (Robert Henry)