Definition of Mandalay

1. Noun. A city in central Myanmar to the north of Rangoon.

Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center
Group relationships: Burma, Myanmar, Union Of Burma

Definition of Mandalay

1. Proper noun. A city in central Burma (Myanmar) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mandalay

Manchurian fever
Manchurian haemorrhagic fever
Manchurian typhus
Manchurians
Manchus
Mancona bark
Mancs
Mancunian
Mancunians
Manda
Mandaean
Mandaeanism
Mandaeans
Mandaeism
Mandaic
Mandalay (current term)
Mandara
Mandarin
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin dialect
Mandate of Heaven
Mandchuria
Mande
Mandeali
Mandean
Mandeanism
Mandela
Mandelamine
Mandelbrot
Mandelbrot set

Literary usage of Mandalay

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Mandalay BY THE old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, ... Come you back to Mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay: Can't you 'ear their paddles ..."

2. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"Mandalay BY the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For the wind is in the ..."

3. Handbook of Best Readings by Solomon Henry Clark (1902)
"Mandalay RUDYARD KIPLING By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, ... Come you back to Mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay: Can't you 'ear ..."

4. The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918 by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1918)
"On the road to Mandalay— When the mist was on the rice-fields an' the sun ... On the road to Mandalay— But that's all shove be'ind me—long ago an' fur away ..."

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