Agra Definition

ägrə
proper name
City on the Jumna River, in Uttar Pradesh, India: site of the Taj Mahal.
Webster's New World
Former province of India: now part of Uttar Pradesh.
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pronoun

A large city in India, in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

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A city of north-central India on the Yamuna River southeast of New Delhi. It was a Mughal capital in the 16th and 17th centuries and is the site of the Taj Mahal, an ornate mausoleum built by the emperor Shah Jahan after the death of his favorite wife in 1631.
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Agra Sentence Examples

  • The country is traversed throughout by the Rajputana railway, with its Malwa branch in the south, and diverging to Agra and Delhi in the north.

  • Navigable branches connect the canal with Muttra and Agra.

  • The climax of Mahommedan work in India is reached in that of the Mogul emperors at Agra, Delhi and Fatehpur-Sikri, in which there is a very close resemblance in design to the mosques of Syria, Egypt, and Persia; the four-centred arch, which is in the Mogul style, finds general acceptance, and was probably derived from Persian sources.

  • The state is crossed by the Indian Midland railway from Jhansi to Agra.

  • The Sanskrit college at Benares had been established in 1791, the Agra college in 1823.

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