Seringapatam

American  

[suh-ring-guh-puh-tam] / səˌrɪŋ gə pəˈtæm /

noun

1. a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.

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Seringapatam British  

/ səˌrɪŋɡəpəˈtæm /

noun

1. a small town in S India, in Karnataka on Seringapatam Island in the Cauvery River: capital of Mysore from 1610 to 1799, when it was besieged and captured by the British. Pop: 23 448 (2001)

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Example Sentences

Seringapatam, built at the Bombay Dockyard in 1819.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2011

The 9025 mercals of rice remained in charge of Captain Macleod till Seringapatam was taken; no part of it was issued before the 18th May.

From A report of Major Hart's case, of rice-frauds, near Seringapatam by Inglis, W. H.

In the evening he suddenly explained that he was actually sailing in the Seringapatam, that his baggage was already on board, and he must get aboard himself that night!”

From The Camera Fiend by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

One near London; one near Seringapatam; and the young lady, we suppose, in Ottery churchyard, but her offence, though beyond the power of Philosophy to pardon, is not remembered, we trust, in her epitaph!

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

In the year 1848 I found myself traveling through the Mysorean country of Seringapatam, so familiar to every reader of Indian history, for the rapid rise of that crafty but talented Asiatic Hyder Ali.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various