Surat
noun
a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India: first British settlement in India 1612.
Surat
American
[soo-rat, soor-uht]
/ sʊˈræt, ˈsʊər ət /
noun
Surat
1
British
/ sʊˈræt, ˈsʊərət /
noun
surat
2
British
/ sjuːˈræt /
noun
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Jagdish Khunt, president of the Surat Diamond Association in the western Indian state of Gujarat, said there would be a drop in orders in the short term.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2025
The Surat Thani Provincial Public Relations Office said 26-year-old Alexandra Clarke from Lambeth, south London, was the only tourist missing after the incident.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025
Most of the rough diamonds mined in Botswana are shipped to manufacturing hubs like Surat, India, where they are cut and polished into the shiny crystals that greatly increase their value.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
"We have filed an appeal challenging the Surat district court’s order," Gandhi’s lawyer, Pankaj Champaneri, told Reuters.
From Reuters ● Apr. 25, 2023
A few districts in Gujarat almost entirely escaped; but the mortality was very heavy in Satara, Thana, Surat, Poona, Kolaba, and in the native states of Cutch, Baroda, Kolhapur and Palanpur.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
There has been a surat delivered to Lakamba.
From An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad
Then there were some more words in which d'Alcacer's attentive ear caught the word "surat."
From The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows by Joseph Conrad
I want you to start at once for the camp, with surat for the Kavitan.
From An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad
Tell me out of the old man’s surat where you read so often at night.”
From Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river by Joseph Conrad
Regarding the subject of that document— Akan hal surat itu.
From A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay by Sir William Edward Maxwell
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