ganges river

1. 1.

   an Asian river; rises in the Himalayas and flows east into the Bay of Bengal; a sacred river of the Hindus

   SynonymsGanges

   Broaderriver

   Part ofIndiaBangladesh

Questions about ganges river

What does ganges river mean?

ganges river means "an Asian river; rises in the Himalayas and flows east into the Bay of Bengal; a sacred river of the Hindus".

What is another word for ganges river?

Close synonyms include Ganges. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ganges river a common word?

ganges river is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.