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Lucknow

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Luck·now  (lknou)
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]
n
(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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Noun1.LucknowLucknow - 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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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.
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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.
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