Madras

/məˈdɹæs/

Synonyms for "madras" (16 found)

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Closest matches (4)

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Noun(3 words)
cotton madrasfrom madrasmadras cloth

Related words (8)

Noun(7 words)
madras fabricmadras textilemadras-originmulticoloredold madrasplaidport city

Related word relations

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11 entries
Madras architectureMadras cuisineMadras theatrecheckmadras checkmadras plaidmadras stripemegacitymetropolisplaidport city

Collocations

11 entries
check patterncotton madrasmadras checkmadras clothmadras currymadras fabricmadras plaidmadras shirtmadras textilemadras weaveplaid pattern

Inflections

2 entries
madras clothsmadras fabrics

Derivations

3 entries
Madrasianmadras clothmadras fabric

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

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He started getting serious about a career in mathematics during his undergraduate years at Madras University. It was in Calcutta, India, where he'd gone to get his PhD in applied statistics, that Varadhan says the urgings of his peers helped steer him from the applied side to the theoretical side of probability.

Source: tatoeba (12250709)

I’ll have the chicken Madras.

Source: wiktionary

A black woman in blue cotton gown, red-and-yellow Madras turban […] crouched against the wall.

Source: wiktionary

The service makes available, during limited weekend hours, a handful of the company’s items—cargo shorts, tank tops, and the like—to the Hamptons house guest who discovers that he can’t make it to Monday without purchasing one of those weird madras patchwork blazers

Source: wiktionary

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