a former province of NE India, in the great deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers: in 1947 divided into West Bengal (belonging to India) and East Bengal (Bangladesh) - Bay of Bengal ⇒
a wide arm of the Indian Ocean, between India and Myanmar a breed of medium-large cat with a spotted or marbled coat
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Ben•gal
(ben gôl′, -gäl′, beng-; ben′gəl, beng′-),USA pronunciation n.
- Place Namesa former province in NE India, now divided between India and Bangladesh. Cf. East Bengal, West Bengal.
- Place Names Bay of, a part of the Indian Ocean between India and Burma (Myanmar).
- Textilesa raw silk from Bengal.
- Textilesa fabric, esp. one made of silk and hair.
- Textilesa fabric, similar to muslin, with printed stripes.
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'Bengal' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Andaman Islands
- Andaman Sea
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Andhra Pradesh
- Asansol
- Austroasiatic
- Bangladesh
- Beng.
- Bengal catechu
- Bengal light
- Bengal quince
- Bengal rose
- Bengalese
- Bengali
- Bentinck
- Bhatpara
- Burma
- Calcutta
- Cauvery
- Chandernagor
- Chandernagore
- Chennai
- China rose
- Chittagong
- Cooch Behar
- Cornwallis
- Coromandel Coast
- Damodar
- Darjeeling
- Dhaka
- East Bengal
- East Bengali
- Eastern Ghats
- Ganges
- Godavari
- Hastings
- Hindustan
- Hooghly
- Howrah
- Indochina
- Irrawaddy
- Kolkata
- Kra
- Krishna
- Mahanadi
- Martaban
- Myanmar
- Nicobar Islands
- Odisha
- Plassey