Patna

American  

[puht-nuh, pat‑, puht-nah] / ˈpʌt nə, ˈpæt‑, ˈpʌtˈnɑ /

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Bihar, in NE India, on the Ganges.

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Patna British  

/ ˈpætnə /

noun

1. a city in NE India, capital of Bihar state, on the River Ganges: founded in the 5th century _bc ; university (1917); centre of a rice-growing region. Pop: 1 376 950 (2001)

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Example Sentences

On reaching the outskirts of the capital, Patna, the team found a ramshackle setup of a dozen metal drums - part of a makeshift apparatus fermenting jaggery, a type of cane sugar, into country liquor.

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Rajeev Kamal Kumar, an anthropologist at Patna's AN Sinha Institute of Social Sciences, who worked on a government study of prohibition, says both sides of the story are true.

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In Bihar state, 170 cases have been reported, with 40 requiring surgery, says Dr Bibhuti Prassan Sinha, who heads the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology in Patna city.

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While the draft roll was being published, we travelled to Patna and nearby villages to hear what voters think of SIR.

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Last month, a patient at another government hospital in Patna said that a rat bit his toe while he was asleep.

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