LUCKNOW

Lucknow

(noun) the British residents of Lucknow were besieged by Indian insurgents during the Indian Mutiny (1857)

Lucknow

(noun) a city in northern India in Uttar Pradesh; during the Indian Mutiny its British residents were besieged by Indian insurgents

Source: WordNet® 3.1



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Word of the Day

25 January 2025

DERMATOGLYPHICS

(noun) the study of the whorls and loops and arches in the fingertips and on the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet; “some criminologists specialize in dermatoglyphics”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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