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chawkidar

chawkidar is the alternative form of chaukidar.

Meaning of chaukidar

Noun

chaukidar (plural chaukidars)

  1. (India) A watchman; a guard.
    • A chowkidar (watchman) was deputed to do justice.1887, Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea

Forms of chawkidar

pluralchawkidars

Questions about chawkidar

What is chawkidar the alternative form of?
Chawkidar is the alternative form of chaukidar.

Words near chawkidar in the dictionary

  1. chawers
  2. chawes
  3. chawing
  4. chawing up
  5. chawki
  6. chawkidar
  7. chawkidari
  8. chawkidaris
  9. chawkidars
  10. chawkie
  11. chawkies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chawkidar (page history and authors); chaukidar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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