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Definition of Bengal

1. Noun. A region whose eastern part is now Bangladesh and whose western part is included in India.

Definition of Bengal

1. n. A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc.

Definition of Bengal

1. Proper noun. A region in the northeast of South Asia. ¹

2. Proper noun. (American football) A player on the team w:Cincinnati Bengals The Cincinnati Bengals. ¹

3. Noun. A short-haired domestic cat breed, which originated in the United States. ¹

4. Noun. A cat of this breed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Bengal

1. 1. A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc. 2. A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal. 3. Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes. Bengal light, a firework containing niter, sulphur, and antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid coloured light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; called also blue light. Bengal stripes, a kind of cotton cloth woven with coloured stripes. See Bengal. Bengal tiger. See Tiger. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bengal

Literary usage of Bengal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1859)
"Pus.; JW Sanders, Bengal NI; H. Bruce, Bombay European Regt.; TT Boileau, Bengal LC; RJ Edgell, Bengal NI; K. Oakes, Bengal NI; WA Crommelin ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Excluding Assam, which was erected into à separate administration in February 1874, Bengal now includes the four great provinces of Bengal Proper, Behar, ..."

3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. by William Wilson Hunter, Great Britain India Office (1908)
"I349-52 Ala-ud-dln AH (W. Bengal) 1339-45 Shams-ud-din Ilyas (in Ganr) . ... Mahmud Shah (the last substantial King of Bengal) Conquest by Humayun Sher Shah ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"had addressed to them from Bengal and partly to the fact that his suggestion ... At this point news arrived of the calamitous position of affairs in Bengal. ..."

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