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As·sam 1

 (ă-săm′)
A state of northeast India, located primarily in the valley of the Brahmaputra River. Before the British colonization of India, Assam was a powerful kingdom founded by invaders from Burma and China in the 13th century.

As·sam 2

 (ă-săm′)
n.
A variety of black tea grown in the Indian state of Assam.

assam

(ˈæsæm; Malay ˈasam)
n
(Cookery) (in Malaysia) tamarind as used in cooking. Assam ikan is a dish of fish cooked with tamarind
[from Malay asam sour]

Assam

(æˈsæm)
n
1. (Placename) a state of NE India, situated in the central Brahmaputra valley: tropical forest, with the heaviest rainfall in the world; produces large quantities of tea. Capital: Dispur. Pop: 26 638 407 (2001 est). Area: 78 438 sq km (30 673 sq miles)
2. (Plants) a high-quality black tea grown in the state of Assam

As•sam

(æˈsæm)

n.
a state in NE India. 22,414,322; 30,283 sq. mi. (78,438 sq. km). Cap.: Guwahati.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.Assam - state in northeastern IndiaAssam - state in northeastern India    
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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Assam

[æˈsæm] N → Assam m
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The best are Lapsing Souchong, Assam Pekoe, rare Ankoe, Flowery Pekoe, Howqua's mixture, Scented Caper, Padral tea, black Congou, and green Twankey.
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As part of the strategy, claimed by party functionaries as a strategy to ' expose rampant corruption' in the state, BJP activists would gherao the Assam Assembly on November 9.
BJP gears up for Assam election, unit gets 28 lakh new members
Association (AAASA), Assam Tea Tribes Students Association (ATTSA) and Asom Yuva Parishad (AYP) disrupted normal life across the state.
Adivasi groups call bandh to protest Assam killings
The problems in Assam are less its own making and more the doings of a Centre that abdicated its responsibility.
Assam violence a result of Centre's indifference
COLONIAL ASSAM was a product of the British Indian Government's territorial organization of its conquests in the northeastern parts of the South Asian subcontinent from 1826 onwards.
Jayeeta Sharma, Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India
Rongali Bihu is celebrated in Assam to mark the occasion of the Assamese New Year in April.
Assamese share Bihu nostalgia
at Maligaon, a crowded market in Guwahati, the capital city of Assam, killing seven people and wounding 56 others, the report said.
2ND LD: 8 killed, 62 injured in series of blasts in India
Separatist rebels are often blamed for attacks in Assam state, a region wracked by violence over the past few decades.
Explosion rips through India train
The latest of the four blasts occurred in a market where migrant workers had set up stalls in the town of Bohori Bazaar, in western Assam, killing one person and critically wounding three others.
Separatist bombers kill three
Earlier, McLeod Russel had taken over George Williamson (Assam) Limited, after which the name had been changed to Williamson Tea Assam Limited.
Williamson Tea Assam to merge with McLeod Russel
The rebels triggered a remote-controlled land mine as Assam State Public Works Minister Mr Nagen Sharma's car reached a village in Nalbari district, 70 miles west of Gauhati, the capital of Assam state.
Minister killed by bombing
In the feasibility study program to be carried out for Oil India Limited, the same DCL Technology that was originally licensed to the Shenhua Group will be used in HTI's pilot plants to test a representative array of coal samples from the Assam region.
Headwaters Incorporated to Conduct Coal-to-Oil Feasibility Study for Oil India Limited

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