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PRONUNCIATION OF NILGIRI HILLS

Nilgiri Hills  [ˈnɪlɡɪrɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NILGIRI HILLS

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Nilgiri Hills is a noun.
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WHAT DOES NILGIRI HILLS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nilgiri Hills

Nilgiri mountains

The Nilgiri, often referred to as the Nilgiri Hills, are a range of mountains with at least 24 peaks above 2,000 metres, in the westernmost part of Tamil Nadu state at the junction of Karnataka and Kerala states in Southern India. They are part of the larger Western Ghats mountain chain making up the southwestern edge of the Deccan Plateau.

Definition of Nilgiri Hills in the English dictionary

The definition of Nilgiri Hills in the dictionary is a plateau in S India, in Tamil Nadu. Average height: 2000 m, reaching 2635 m in Doda Betta.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NILGIRI HILLS


daiquiri
ˈdaɪkɪrɪ
Gehry
ˈɡeɪrɪ
hara-kiri
ˌhærəˈkɪrɪ
Kafiri
ˈkæfɪrɪ
panegyry
ˈpænɪˌdʒɪrɪ
piri-piri
ˌpɪrɪˈpɪrɪ
porphyry
ˈpɔːfɪrɪ
rhombenporphyry
ˌrɒmbənˈpɔːfɪrɪ
rhombporphyry
ˈrɒmbˈpɔːfɪrɪ
transire
trænzˈaɪrɪ
venire
vɪˈnaɪrɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NILGIRI HILLS

Nikkei index
Nikkei Stock Average
Nikko
Nikolainkaupunki
Nikolayev
nil
nil desperandum
nil return
Nile
Nile blue
Nile green
nilgai
nilghau
Nilgiris
nill
Nilo-Saharan
Nilometer
Nilotic
nilpotent
Nilsson

WORDS THAT END LIKE NILGIRI HILLS

as old as the hills
Beverly Hills
Black Hills
Bombay Hills
Cheviot Hills
Chiltern Hills
Chin Hills
communication skills
hills
interpersonal skills
language skills
management skills
Matopo Hills
Mendip Hills
Mills
pills
social skills
the hills
Valdai Hills
Wills

Synonyms and antonyms of Nilgiri Hills in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Nilgiri Hills» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

尼尔吉里山
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Nilgiri
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English

Nilgiri Hills
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नीलगिरि हिल्स
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

Nilgiri هيلز
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Нилгири Hills
278 millions of speakers

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Nilgiri Hills
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নীলগিরি পাহাড়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Nilgiri Hills
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Nilgiri Hills
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nilgiri Hills
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ニルギリ丘陵
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

닐 기리 힐스
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nilgiri Hills
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Nilgiri Hills
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நீலகிரி மலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निलगिरी पर्वतरांग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Nilgiri Hills
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Nilgiri Hills
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Translator English - Polish

Nilgiri Hills
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Нілгирі Hills
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Nilgiri Hills
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Nilgiri Hills
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Nilgiri Hills
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Nilgiri Hills
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Nilgiri Hills
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Nilgiri Hills

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NILGIRI HILLS»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Nilgiri Hills

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NILGIRI HILLS»

Discover the use of Nilgiri Hills in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Nilgiri Hills and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Blue Mountains Revisited: Cultural Studies on the Nilgiri Hills
An ethnographic study of the Nilgiri Hills in southern India; contributed articles.
Paul Hockings, 1997
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Anthropology of the Todas and Kotas of the Nilgiri Hills ; ...
MADRAS GOVERNMENT MUSEUM BULLETIN VOL. I, NO. 4 ANTHROPOLOGY TODAS AND KOTAS or THE NILGIRI HILLS AND OF THE BRAHMANS, KAMMALANS, PALLIS AND PARIAHS OF MADRAS CITY Thl s One A81A- ZN- XTCA ...
Edgar Thurston, 2004
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Bibliographie générale sur les monts Nilgiri de l'Inde du ...
HOCKINGS, Paul Edward 320. 196 2 The Nilgiri Hills: A Bibliography for Historians, Geographers and Anthropologists. Berkeley: Center for South Asian Studies, University of California; mimeo, 33 pp.; [1st edn. of the present Bibliography.] 321 ...
Paul Hockings, 1996
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Biosphere Reserves in India: Landuse, Biodiversity and ...
The Nilgiri hills are a part of the Western Ghats mountain range that stretch all along the west coast of India from the Tapti river in the north to the southern tip of the country. The Western Ghats give way to the imposing Nilgiri hills in the ...
Sharad Singh Negi, 1996
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A Complete Course In Certificate Geography
To the south of the plateau are the Nilgiri Hills, the Annaimalai, Cardamom and Palni Hills. The Nilgiri Hills or the Blue mountains form the meeting point of the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, its highest peak being Dodabetta (2,637 ...
Late V.N. Nigam, 1997
6
Folktales of India
37. •. The. Man. Named. Unige. Mada. (Nilgiri. Hills,. Tamilnadu). This next tale preserves some of the oral storytelling style of a folk bard and thus has a special grammatical flavor worthy of note. It comes from the Nilgiri Hills and was told by a  ...
Brenda E. F. Beck, Peter J. Claus, Praphulladatta Goswami, 1989
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Students' Britannica India
guage. NILGIRI HILLS mountainous region of Tamil Nadu State, southern India. The peaks of the Nilgiri rise abruptly from the surrounding plains to an elevation of 1,800 to 2,400 m; one of them, Doda Betta (2,637 m), is the highest point in ...
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Encyclopaedia of Tourism Resources in India
The two ranges meet in the extreme South in the Nilgiri hills. The southern hill station are in these hills. Matheron and Mahabaleshwar near Mumbai in Western Ghats, Ooty and Kodaikanal in the Nilgiri hills. The major rivers of the south are the ...
Manohar Sajnani, 2001
9
ASIAN HIGHLANDS PERSPECTIVES Volume 21: Collected Essays
Agriculture: Toda in P Hockings (ed) Encyclopaedia of the Nilgiri Hills. New Delhi : Manohar, 8-11. . 2012b. Bow Ceremony in P. Hockings (ed) Encyclopaedia of the Nilgiri Hills. New Delhi: Manohar, 151-154. . 2012c. Buffalo in P Hockings ...
Various
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U.P.S.C. Civil Services (Preliminary Examination)
(a) Nallamalai Hills— Nilgiri Hills— Javadi Hills— Anaimalai Hills (b) Anaimalai Hills — Javadi Hills — Nilgiri Hills — Nallamalai Hills (c) Nallamalai Hills— Javadi Hills— Nilgiri Hills— Anaimalai Hills (d) Anaimalai Hills — Nilgiri Hills — Javadi ...
V.V.K. Subburaj

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NILGIRI HILLS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Nilgiri Hills is used in the context of the following news items.
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Some ferns grow as large as coconut trees
The Western Ghats is home to four species of tree ferns including the Cyathea nilgiriensis which is only found in the Nilgiri Hills and is ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
2
Mallya's & India's No 1 horse to miss today's Derby; new tracks blamed
On May 24 this year, Mirza, the managing director of United Racing & Bloodstock Breeders Ltd, had driven down from Nilgiri Hills only to watch ... «Bangalore Mirror, Jul 15»
3
Monsoon blues
Mari Marcel Thekaekara is a writer based in Gudalur, in the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu. Permalink | Published on June 29, 2015 by Mari Marcel Thekaekara | 4. «New Internationalist, Jun 15»
4
Satire and comedy queen Jo Kukathas
So he sent them to a boarding school in Ooty, India, in the Nilgiri hills of the south. Kukathas says the experience was "quite Dickensian", where ... «AsiaOne, Jun 15»
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"Those who like my work will be very proud of Kapoor & Sons …
Says Rishi Kapoor, nostalgically, "These are the very same Nilgiri Hills, the Blue Mountains where I was launched as adolescent in Mera Naam ... «Bollywood Hungama, Jun 15»
6
Madras must not burn
Families packed trunks, and the wealthiest ones had already sent servants ahead to bungalows in the Nilgiri Hills, to get things ready, just in ... «The Hindu, Jun 15»
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Summers on peak! Check which hill station is actually cool this time!
Also referred as Udhagamandalam or Ootacamund - Ooty is situated amidst the Nilgiri hills at an altitude of 2,240 meters above sea level. «indiatvnews.com, Jun 15»
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15 Lesser Known Facts About India That Will Put Some Things In …
tea plantations. Flickr.com/Sleep Less. Tea is grown in several parts of the country including Assam, Darjeeling, Nilgiri Hills and Kerala. «Times of India, May 15»
9
'Stop moaning – or you'll collapse in defeat'
Mari is a writer based in Gudalur, in the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu. She writes on human rights issues with a focus on dalits, adivasis, women, ... «New Internationalist, May 15»
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A short history of India's two-decade struggle to define what a forest …
The case began as a petition to stop illegal felling of timber in the Nilgiri hills but expanded into an overhaul of the Indian forest policy. «Scroll.in, May 15»

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