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chawkidari

chawkidari 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 chawkidari

pluralchawkidaris

Questions about chawkidari

What is chawkidari the alternative form of?
Chawkidari is the alternative form of chaukidar.

Words near chawkidari in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chawkidari (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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