Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See tana.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun India A police station.

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Examples

  • Jazz vocalist and composer Thana Pavelic at the Lotus Club.

    Jim Luce: Swiss Global Artistic Foundation: Presenting Music From Classical to Jazz Jim Luce 2011

  • He brought several of his deputies with him including the Thana and Upazila Chairmen.

    Kristin Boekhoff: Ecopreneur: Never Let Them See You Sweat 2009

  • During search operation at Thana, an improvised explosive device (IED) went off causing injuries to a soldier.

    Juan Cole: Armageddon at the Top of the World: Not! 2009

  • The French Dominican friar Jordanus Catalani of Severac in south-western France started evangelizing activities in Thana and Sapora was the first work of Rome in North Konkan.

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  • There are indisputable evidences of this fact by the writings of Kosmos Indicopleustes of his having seen in Kalyana a flourishing Christian Community in the 6th Century and of Jordanus, of his having labored among the Christians in Thana and Sopara in the 13th Century.

    Archive 2009-08-01 photographerno1 2009

  • Before 1971, the year of the independence of the Nation, there was an administrative tier named sub-division between District and Thana (presently Upazilla).

    Balancing MP-LGR disagreements 2009

  • My favorite is the intro to "Dheem Thana Thana Nana" (you can hear that killer track on Dance Raja Dance, a Vijaya Anand compilation).

    If These Tablas Could Talk (Music (For Robots)) 2006

  • With a sad voice the schoolmaster Rabindra adds, we have placed our demand for land before the TNO (Thana In-charge Officer) and before our local Member of Parliament L.K. Siddique.

    Indigenous people of Tripura Para and their endangered life 2007

  • Like the war on terrorism which is based on theory of fear, Rural politics revolves around the same, a symbolic state oppression which is usually called as Thana (Police-station) culture and where people rally behind those who could free them from the clutches of state oppressors.

    Tap dancing and Pakistani politics 2007

  • Korca is situated at the foot of the Morava mountains, on the slopes of St. Thana hill, it was an Illyrian settlement in an - cient times.

    I am going to Korca 2005

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