DELHI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Delhi mean? 

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

1. a city in north central India

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DELHI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in north central India

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Delhi; New Delhi

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Delhi" 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)

 Context examples 

The work is the result of a collaboration among Naveen Bisht, a scientist at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research in New Delhi, India; Joseph Jez, a plant biologist at Washington University; and Jonathan Gershenzon of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany.

(Is a milder mustard on the way?, National Science Foundation)