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Benares

Benares is the alternative form of Varanasi.

Meaning of Varanasi

Proper noun

Varanasi

  1. A large city, district, and division of Uttar Pradesh, India.
    • On either side of the roof, Varanasi stretched out in an arc, its sandstone walls catching the light until they shone a rich sepia gold.2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 389
    Synonyms:
    Banaras, Benares, Kashi

Origin of Benares

Borrowed from Hindi बनारस (banāras).

Questions about Benares

What is Benares the alternative form of?
Benares is the alternative form of Varanasi.

Words near Benares in the dictionary

  1. Benantis
  2. benar
  3. Benard
  4. Benardete's paradox
  5. Benards
  6. Benares
  7. Benas
  8. Benasque
  9. Benasquese
  10. benastatin
  11. benastatins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Benares (page history and authors); Varanasi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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