Associations to the word «Mumbai»

Wiktionary

MUMBAI, proper noun. State capital of Maharashtra, India, formerly known as Bombay.

Dictionary definition

MUMBAI, noun. A city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea; India's 2nd largest city (after Calcutta); has the only natural deep-water harbor in western India.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats