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Hugli

Hugli is the alternative form of Hooghly.

Meaning of Hooghly

Proper noun

Hooghly

  1. A river in West Bengal forming the westernmost branch of the Ganges.
    • The Uſuwrper, called upon by the univerſal clamour of the people, and diſtreſſes of his country, once more quitted [...] and of all the country the Weſtern ſhore of the Hougley river from Ballaſore, to within a few miles Tanna's Fort, near the Engliſh ſettlement of Fort William.1765, John Zephaniah Holwell, Interesting Historical Events, Relative to the Provinces of Bengal, and the Empire of Indostan: With a Seasonable Hint and Perswasive to the …, volume 1, T. Becket and...
  2. A city on the Hooghly River, now known officially as Hugli-Chuchura.
  3. A district of West Bengal, India which contains the city of Hooghly.

Questions about Hugli

What is Hugli the alternative form of?
Hugli is the alternative form of Hooghly.

Words near Hugli in the dictionary

  1. Hugill
  2. Huginn
  3. hugless
  4. Hugley
  5. Hugleys
  6. Hugli
  7. Hugli-Chuchura
  8. Hugo
  9. Hugoboom
  10. Hugoesque
  11. Hugolatry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hugli (page history and authors); Hooghly (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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