BANGLADESH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bangladesh mean? 

• BANGLADESH (noun)
  The noun BANGLADESH has 1 sense:

1. a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971. In local language, 'Bangladesh' means Land of the Bengalis ('Bangla' means Bengali, 'desh' means land or country)

  Familiarity information: BANGLADESH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANGLADESH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971. In local language, 'Bangladesh' means Land of the Bengalis ('Bangla' means Bengali, 'desh' means land or country)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Bangla Desh; Bangladesh; East Pakistan; People's Republic of Bangladesh

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Bangladesh"):

capital of Bangladesh; Dacca; Dhaka (the capital and largest city of Bangladesh)

Chittagong (a port city and industrial center in southeastern Bangladesh on the Bay of Bengal)

Brahmaputra; Brahmaputra River (an Asian river; flows into the Bay of Bengal)

Ganges; Ganges River (an Asian river; rises in the Himalayas and flows east into the Bay of Bengal; a sacred river of the Hindus)

Meronyms (members of "Bangladesh"):

Bangladeshi (a native or inhabitant of Bangladesh)

Bengali ((Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus))

Domain member region:

Hindooism; Hinduism (the religion of most people in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal)

madrasa; madrasah (Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan)

Holonyms ("Bangladesh" is a part of...):

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

 Context examples 

Parboiling husked whole grain, on the other hand, not only reduces arsenic by 25 per cent, but also increases its calcium content significantly, according to the researchers from Bangladesh and Northern Ireland.

(Parboiling husked rice reduces arsenic content, SciDev.Net)

A low-cost device that infuses small amounts of chlorine into water drawn from public taps can reduce child diarrhoea by 23 per cent, according to a study conducted in Bangladesh.

(Chlorine dispensers fitted to public taps cut child diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)

For example, in Bangladesh, deep wells were introduced in the Ganges Delta to draw water clear of bacterial and viral pathogens, but this inadvertently led to exposure to toxic metals.

(Experts warn of cardiovascular risk from heavy metal pollution, University of Cambridge)

A country in southern Asia, between China and India, east of Nepal and north of Bangladesh.

(Bhutan, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes the inhabitants of Bangladesh, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Bangladeshi, NCI Thesaurus)

The northeastern state shares a border with Bangladesh and is considered among the world’s wettest places for the heavy rainfall it receives.

(Cave stalagmites reveal India’s rainfall secrets, SciDev.Net)

Manganese and selenium as micronutrients can counter the hypertensive effect of lead in blood, say the results of a new study conducted in Bangladesh.

(Micronutrients can counter lead effects in blood pressure, SciDev.Net)

The researchers behind the new study admit that inability to measure blood glucose levels in the children who died in the 2012 outbreak of AES in Bangladesh prevented investigation of the role of MCPG.

(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)

Bangladesh, China, Haiti, India, Pakistan, North Korea and South Sudan are some of the most affected countries.

(Pollution is the World’s No. 1 Killer, VOA)

The most affected countries are Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan though arsenic pollution is also present in China, parts of Europe and the Americas.

(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)