Lucknow

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A city of north-central India east-southeast of Delhi. Once the capital of the kingdom of Oudh (1775-1856), it was besieged for five months during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Population: 2,200,000.

Lucknow [ˈlʌknaʊ]

(Placename) a city in N India, capital of Uttar Pradesh: capital of Oudh (1775-1856); the British residency was besieged (1857) during the Indian Mutiny. Pop.: 1 619 115 (1991)

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Noun	1.	Lucknow - a city in northern India in Uttar Pradesh; during the Indian Mutiny its British residents were besieged by Indian insurgents 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
	2.	Lucknow - the British residents of Lucknow were besieged by Indian insurgents during the Indian Mutiny (1857) 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

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Bharat
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Gorakhpur
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Outram
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Sepoy Mutiny
Uttar Pradesh
Varanasi

Lucknow is rather better than a hundred miles to the east, and Cawnpore about as far to the south.

Sign of the Four by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

Here is my uncle's walking-stick--he was Sir Richard Warburton, you know, and rode with Havelock to the Relief of Lucknow.

Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context

The Regiment would pay for you all the time you are at the Military Orphanage; or you might go on the Punjab Masonic Orphanage's list (not that he or you 'ud understand what that means); but the best schooling a boy can get in India is, of course, at St Xavier's in Partibus at Lucknow.

Kim by Kipling, Rudyard View in context

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