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burning ghat

noun

  1. a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of burning ghat1

First recorded in 1875–80

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Example Sentences

But that is thy child on thy shoulder—given over to the burning-ghat not two days ago.

But let no one come to thine aid, lest there be nothing of thee left to take to the burning ghat.'

It was about eight o'clock in the morning when my boat reached this burning ghat.

Social distinctions are as marked at the Benares burning-ghat as in the modern American cemetery.

A woman's corpse going down to the burning-ghat, and a bystander says, 'She died at midnight from the heat.'

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