GANGES RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ganges River mean? 

• GANGES RIVER (noun)
  The noun GANGES RIVER has 1 sense:

1. an Asian river; rises in the Himalayas and flows east into the Bay of Bengal; a sacred river of the Hindus

  Familiarity information: GANGES RIVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GANGES RIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Asian river; rises in the Himalayas and flows east into the Bay of Bengal; a sacred river of the Hindus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Ganges; Ganges River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Ganges River" is a part of...):

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

Bharat; India; Republic of India (a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)