- 1. n. A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc. Source: opted
- 2. n. A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal. Source: opted
- 3. n. Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes. Source: opted
- 4. 1. A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc. 2. A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal. 3. Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes. Bengal light, a firework containing niter, sulphur, and antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid colored light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; -- called also blue light. -- Bengal stripes, a kind of cotton cloth woven with colored stripes. See Bengal, 3. -- Bengal tiger. (Zoöl.). See Tiger. Source: webster
- 5. The language spoken in Bengal. Source: adambom
- 6. j:100 n. a region whose eastern part is now Bangladesh and whose western part is included in India Source: ecdict
Home / Dictionary / bengal
bengal
Thesaurus links
Related headwords in VividLex — dictionary ↔ thesaurus bridge for exploration and SEO depth.