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Secunderabad

American  
[suh-kuhn-der-uh-bad] / səˈkʌn dər əˌbæd /

noun

  1. a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.


Secunderabad British  
/ səˈkʌndərəˌbæd, -ˌbɑːd /

noun

  1. a former town in S central India, in N Andra Pradesh: one of the largest British military stations in India: now part of Hyderabad city

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The latest fire broke out late on Monday in a hotel basement housing the showroom with some two dozen electric scooters in the southern city of Secunderabad, police said.

From Reuters ● Sep. 13, 2022

Watsa was born in Secunderabad, in southeastern India, in 1950.

From BusinessWeek ● Oct. 3, 2013

Many Christians - like these worshippers in the Indian city of Secunderabad - shape their palms to form crosses, recalling Christ's execution which is marked next Thursday.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2011

A year after Sime took his picture, his parents arranged for their son to join them for his summer holidays at their army quarters in Trimulgherry near Secunderabad.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2010

This corps had now been augmented by the arrival of the Ferozapore Brigade, to be followed almost immediately by the Secunderabad Cavalry Brigade and the Jodhpur Lancers.

From The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Ernest W. Hamilton

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