Aligarh

[ ah-lee-guhr, al-uh-gahr ]

noun
  1. a city in W Uttar Pradesh, in N India.

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How to use Aligarh in a sentence

  • It is an important station on the Oudh & Rohilkhand railway, with a junction for Aligarh.

  • From Agra to Aligarh; and from Aligarh he was asked to more places than he could 154 visit.

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  • We came in sight of Aligarh shortly before daybreak on the 5th October.

    Forty-one years in India | Frederick Sleigh Roberts
  • I want to go to our university at Aligarh where I can learn all about our Faith and about everything else, mother.

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  • Aligarh College now has an enrollment of seven hundred and four, more than a hundred of whom are law students.

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British Dictionary definitions for Aligarh

Aligarh

/ (ˌɑːlɪˈɡɜː, ˌælɪ-) /


noun
  1. a city in N India, in W Uttar Pradesh, with a famous Muslim university (1920). Pop: 667 732 (2001)

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