MADRAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Madras mean? 

• MADRAS (noun)
  The noun MADRAS has 3 senses:

1. a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras

2. a city in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal; formerly Madras

3. a light patterned cotton cloth

  Familiarity information: MADRAS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MADRAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Madras; Tamil Nadu

Instance hypernyms:

province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

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

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A city in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal; formerly Madras

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Chennai; Madras

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

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

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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A light patterned cotton cloth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("madras" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

 Context examples 

Eminent herpetologist and co-author of the study Romulus Whitaker from the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Centre for Herpetology, Tamil Nadu state, tells that India needs either region-specific antivenom or antivenom made with venoms pooled from different regions and from the species not yet used in antivenom production.”

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)