Definition of: Hyderabad

(hī′dər·ə·bad′, -bäd′)
1. A former State of south central India on the Deccan Plateau, merged, November 1, 1956, into the States of Andhra Pradesh, Bombay, and Mysore; 82,698 square miles; former capital, Hyderabad: formerly Nizam's Dominions: also Haidarabad.
2. A Commissioners’ Division of SE West Pakistan, formerly a district of the former province of Sind; 35,998 square miles.
3. A city on the Indus, SE West Pakistan, formerly capital of the former province of Sind.
4. A city on the Deccan Plateau, south central India, capital of Andhra Pradesh State; formerly capital of the former State of Hyderabad.