Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Bengali .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun The language spoken in Bengal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Archaic form of
Bengali . - proper noun Archaic form of
Bengali . - adjective Archaic form of
Bengali .
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Examples
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Till Feb. 1910 lived at house of his uncle Krishna Kumar Mitra at 6, College Square, Calcutta. 14th May - A letter at Bengalee, Calcutta. 30th May - Famous speech at Uttarpara.
Archive 2009-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Till Feb. 1910 lived at house of his uncle Krishna Kumar Mitra at 6, College Square, Calcutta. 14th May - A letter at Bengalee, Calcutta. 30th May - Famous speech at Uttarpara.
Summer of deliverance Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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The Oxford English Dictionary traces "Hindooism" to an 1829 reference in the Bengalee, Vol 43, and also refers to an 1858 usage by the German Indologist Max Müller.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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The Oxford English Dictionary traces "Hindooism" to an 1829 reference in the Bengalee, Vol 43, and also refers to an 1858 usage by the German Indologist Max Müller.
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Director, takes the liberty of inviting your attention to the accompanying statement of the advantages offered by the Anglo – Bengalee
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The end of it was, that Mr Pecksniff agreed to become the last partner and proprietor in the Anglo – Bengalee, and made an appointment to dine with Mr Montague, at Salisbury, on the next day but one, then and there to complete the negotiation.
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That gentleman would not let the Bengalee rest until he had executed his promise of having a home for Amelia and his father.
Vanity Fair 2006
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Jos was seated at that moment on deck under the awning, and pretty nearly opposite to the Earl of Bareacres and his family, whose proceedings absorbed the Bengalee almost entirely.
Vanity Fair 2006
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It was no virtue or merit in Nadgett that he transacted all his Anglo – Bengalee business secretly and in the closest confidence; for he was born to be a secret.
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There was among them the same effeminate fear of capture and the same heroic fortitude when death seemed inevitable, that Clive and Hastings found in the Bengalee.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various
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