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Rishikesh

Rishikesh proper noun: a city in Uttarakhand, India.

Proper noun

Rishikesh

  1. A city in Uttarakhand, India.
    • While I've gazed at the sky from my sleeping bag on isolated mountaintops in Montana and southern beaches of Mexico and seen a jazillion stars basking in the peace of the evening, only in Rishikesh do the jazillion merge upon another bajillion jazillion and seem to lay overhead thick as glittering...2016, Claire Krulikowski, Moonlight on the Ganga

Origin of Rishikesh

Borrowed from Hindi ऋषिकेश (ŕṣikeś).

Questions about Rishikesh

What does Rishikesh mean?
Rishikesh means a city in Uttarakhand, India.
What part of speech is Rishikesh?
Rishikesh is a proper noun.

Words near Rishikesh in the dictionary

  1. Rishels
  2. Risher
  3. Rishers
  4. rishi
  5. Rishihr
  6. Rishikesh
  7. rishis
  8. rishitin
  9. rishon
  10. Rishon LeZion
  11. Rishonic

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