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ghat
or ghaut
[ gawt, got ]
noun
- a wide set of steps descending to a river, especially a river used for bathing.
- a mountain pass.
- a mountain range or escarpment.
ghat
/ ɡɔːt /
noun
- stairs or a passage leading down to a river
- a mountain pass or mountain range
- a place of cremation
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ghat1
1595–1605; < Hindi ghāṭ < Sanskrit ghaṭṭa
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ghat1
C17: from Hindi ghāt, from Sanskrit ghatta
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Example Sentences
A thousand or more natives were bathing ceremoniously in the ghat—men, women and children.
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Ghat is an important centre of the caravan trade between the Nigerian states and the seaports of the Mediterranean (see Tripoli).
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In due course the ship arrived off Prinseps Ghat, the first of her kind to come up the river so far.
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A sumptuous and costly djener awaits us in the zyat, or travellers rest-house at the ghat.
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More by token I had come out on the river-line close to the burnin' ghat and contagious to a cracklin' corpse.
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