Usually means: Holy city on Ganges River.
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  2. Benares: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Benares: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Benares: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Benares: Wiktionary
  7. Benares: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Benares: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Benares: Dictionary.com
  10. Benares: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Benares: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. Benares: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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▸ noun:  (dated) Alternative form of Varanasi, a city in Uttar Pradesh, India [A large city, district, and division of Uttar Pradesh, India.]

Similar:
banaras, Patras, greenwood, Chartres, panam, baul, Varanasi, Matanzas, Shivaji, jain, more...

Phrases:
Benares State, SS City of Benares, more...

Adjectives:
modern, holy, old, sacred, ancient, same, near, timeless, opposite, calcutta, true

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Similar:
banaras, Patras, greenwood, Chartres, panam, baul, Varanasi, Matanzas, Shivaji, jain, more...

Phrases:
Benares State, SS City of Benares, more...

Adjectives:
modern, holy, old, sacred, ancient, same, near, timeless, opposite, calcutta, true



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