Bengalee

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A form of Bengali — Of, from or pertaining to Bengal or the Bengalis.

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Meanings

nounBengalee (plural Bengalees)

plural Bengalees

  1. archaicArchaic form of Bengali.

    Our early popular ideas of the mildness and effeminacy of the Hindoos were derived from the Bengalees, and are by no means characteristic of the general population of India.

    1856, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 80, page 237
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    The Klings of Western India are a numerous body of Mahometans, and, with many Arabs, are petty merchants and shopkeepers. The grooms and washermen are all Bengalees, and there is a small but highly respectable class of Parsee merchants.

    1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 31
proper noun
  1. archaicArchaic form of Bengali.
adjectiveBengalee (comparative more Bengalee, superlative most Bengalee)

comparative more Bengalee · superlative most Bengalee

  1. archaicArchaic form of Bengali.
Cite this entry
APA

Bengalee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bengalee

MLA

“Bengalee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bengalee. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Bengalee,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bengalee.

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