Calcutta

Definition: Calcutta

Calcutta

Noun

1. The largest city in India and one of the largest cities in the world; located in eastern India; suffers from poverty and overcrowding.

Date "Calcutta" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Assemblage	Accumulation; (store); congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation, cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta; quantity; (greatness).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Calcutta

English words defined with "Calcutta": Bombay ♦ Calcuttan ♦ Greater Bombay ♦ Siraj-ud-daula. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Calcutta": 43920 ♦ Black Hole of Calcutta ♦ City of Palaces ♦ Kedjeree'. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Calcutta" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Hungarian (Calcutta), Swedish (Calcutta).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Well its like Calcutta, surrounded by beggars. (Traffic; writing credit: Stephen Gaghan) The place was filled with every cutthroat and low-life from Bombay to Calcutta. It was worse than being in Detroit. (Airplane!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker)
Movie/TV Titles	Oh! Calcutta! (1972) The Other Calcutta (1971) Action for Calcutta (1971) Calcutta 71 (1971) Port of Calcutta (1971)
Song Titles	Calcutta (Instrumental) (performing artist: Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Calcutta Poor: Elegies on a City Above Pretense (reference) Eastern Interlude: A Social History of the European Community in Calcutta (reference) Echoes From Old Calcutta (reference) Guilty Without Trial: Women in the Sex Trade in Calcutta (reference) He's Put The Whole World In Her Hands: Quotations by Mother Teresa of Calcutta (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Emergency rehydration of cholera patients at a dispensary near Calcutta, India. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud..
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Thus it appears that the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		In addition, electronics regional testing laboratories have been established in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore and Calcutta. (references)
		Instrument Landing Systems (ILS) were installed at Mangalore, Aurangabad, Udaipur, Port Blair and Ranchi, while an Automatic Dependent Surveillance System (ADSS) were installed at Calcutta and Chennai. (references)
		Consistent with the trend towards liberalization, the GoI has decided to lease Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Calcutta airports in order to draw the required capital for expansion and modernization of these airports to world class standards. (references)
Children	India	A coalition of about 50 NGO's conducted a detailed survey in the Calcutta municipal area and identified 145,000 children who were not attending school. (references)
	India	On June 30, a Calcutta court fined a nun of the Missionaries of Charity $20 (1,000 Rs) for branding a 12-year-old girl with a hot knife in September 2000. The nun had branded the girl because she stole bread. (references)
Civil Liberties	India	In Calcutta the CPI(M) often threatens journalists; however, as the power of the party diminishes, journalists find it easier to criticize the government. (references)
Economic History	Bangladesh	Widespread communal violence followed, especially in Calcutta. (references)
	Nepal	The only practical seaport of entry for goods bound for Kathmandu is Calcutta in India. (references)
	India	Despite its size, Calcutta has missed out because of the reputation of the leftist state government. (references)
Human Rights	India	In August, the girl was awarded $1,044 (50,000 Rs) as compensation by the divisional bench of the Calcutta High Court. (references)
	Bangladesh	Upon his return from Calcutta, Kabir was held without charge for 2 days before the Government announced that he had been arrested on the charge on carrying out seditious acts abroad. (references)
Minorities	India	On November 30, newspapers reported that Muslim terrorist groups, including Al-Qaida, have targeted the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta. (references)
Trade	India	The information is published, among others, by the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics, Calcutta. (references)
Worker Rights	India	Calcutta NGO's such as Sanlaap also are seeking to build stronger working relationships with local police. (references)
	India	Sanlaap is usually the first organization Calcutta police turn to when they have rescued a trafficked sex worker. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Calcutta" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Calcutta" is used about 275 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	275	17,685

1. Calcutta, OH (CDP, FIPS 10926)
Location: 40.67604 N, 80.57834 W
Population (1990): 1212 (552 housing units)
Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 43920
Country: USA

2. Calcutta , India
Location: 22.30 North, 88.20 East
Population (2000 estimate): 4114725
Time Zone: 5.5 GMT
Country: India

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Expressions: Calcutta

Expression using "Calcutta": Black Hole of Calcutta. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Calcutta": calcutta-based, calcutta-born, Calcutta-on-hudson.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Calcutta

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
calcutta india	611
calcutta	280
calcutta hotel	57
calcutta phone	53
black hole of calcutta	40
oh calcutta	39
university of calcutta	35
shimano calcutta	34
mother teresa of calcutta	29
telegraph calcutta	19
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Calcutta

Language		Translations for "Calcutta"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Kalkutë. (various references)

Bulgarian		Калкута. (various references)

Chinese		� �"各�". (various references)

Czech		Kalkata. (various references)

Danish		calcuttahamp (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), Calcutta-feber (Calcutta fever), sunnhamp (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), madrashamp (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), julburpurjute (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), indienhamp (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), bombayhamp (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), benareshamp (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp). (various references)

Dutch		Canton-koorts (Calcutta fever), Calcuttakoorts (Calcutta fever), Calcuttahennep (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), Sunnhennep (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), Madrashennep (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), Julburpurjute (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), indische hennep (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), Bombayhennep (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), Benareshennep (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp). (various references)

French		chanvre des Indes (Calcutta hemp), chanvre de Sunn (Calcutta hemp), chanvre de Madras (Calcutta hemp), chanvre de Calcutta (Calcutta hemp), chanvre de Bombay (Calcutta hemp), chanvre de Benares (Calcutta hemp), jute de Julburpur (Calcutta hemp), fièvre de Calcutta (Calcutta fever). (various references)

German		Kalkutta. (various references)

Greek		ίαλκούτα. (various references)

Hungarian		Calcutta. (various references)

Irish		Calcúta. (various references)

Italian		canapa di Sunn (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), canapa di Madras (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), canapa di Calcutta (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), canapa di Bombay (ambari hemp, Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Deccan hemp, Indian hemp, Java jute, Julburpur jute, kenaf, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), canapa di Benares (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), canapa delle Indie (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), juta di Julburpur (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp). (various references)

Korean		캘커타. (various references)

Pig Latin		alcuttacay.(various references)

Portuguese		Calcutá. (various references)

Russian		Калькутта. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kalkuta. (various references)

Spanish		cáñamo de Sunn (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), cáñamo de Madrás (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), cáñamo de Indias (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), cáñamo de Calcuta (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), cáñamo de Bombay (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), cáñamo de Benares (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), yute de Julburpur (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), tifus de Cantón (Calcutta fever), fiebre de Calcuta (Calcutta fever). (various references)

Swedish		Calcutta. (various references)

Thai		เมืองกัลกัตตา, กัลกัตตา. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Calcutta

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Crotalaria juncea. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Calcutta

Misspellings
	"Calcutta" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Balclutha, Calacatta, Calcot, calcott, Calcut, calcuttan, Callcott, Clapcott, Collcutt, Cuscuta, Malcutt. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Calcutta

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-l-t-t-u"
	-1 letter: tactual.
	-2 letters: actual.
	-4 letters: acta, caca, caul, cult, tact, tala, talc, taut.
	-5 letters: aal, act, ala, alt, att, cat, cut, lac, lat, tat, tau, tut, uta.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-l-t-t-u"
	+3 letters: acculturate, contractual.
	+4 letters: acculturated, acculturates, autocratical, ultracompact.
	+5 letters: acculturating, acculturation, acculturative, architectural, autocatalytic, contractually, ultracritical.
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