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Bengali

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Noun

1. bengali

(Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus)

2. bengali

an ethnic group speaking Bengali and living in Bangladesh and eastern India

3. bangla, bengali

a Magadhan language spoken by the Bengali people; the official language of Bangladesh and Bengal

Adjective

4. bengali

of or relating to or characteristic of Bengal or its people

Example Sentences:
'Bengali hills'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bengali

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noun
1. 
a member of a people living chiefly in Bangladesh and in West Bengal. The West Bengalis are mainly Hindus; the East Bengalis of Bangladesh are mainly Muslims
2. Also called: Bangla
the language of this people: the official language of Bangladesh and the chief language of West Bengal; it belongs to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family
adjective
3. 
of or relating to Bengal, the Bengalis, or their language

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Bengali

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noun
1. 
a person born or living in Bengal
2. 
the Indo-Aryan language spoken in Bengal
adjective
3. 
of Bengal or its people, language, or culture

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Bengali

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adj.
Of or relating to Bengal or its people, language, or culture.
n. pl. Bengali or Ben·ga·lis
1.
a. A native or inhabitant of Bengal.
b. A person of Bengali ancestry.
2. The modern Indic language of Bangladesh and West Bengal, a state of eastern India.

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