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Bom⋅bay

[bom-bey]
–noun
1. a seaport in and the capital of Maharashtra, in W India, on the Arabian Sea. 5,970,575.
2. a former state in W India: divided in 1960 into the Gujarat and Maharashtra states.
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Bom·bay   (bŏm-bā')   
See Mumbai.
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Bombay

City in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea. It is now officially called Mumbai.

Note: India's second-largest city, after Calcutta, Bombay is the only natural deep-water harbor in western India.
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