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chawls

chawls is the plural of chawl.

Meaning of chawl

Noun (1)

chawl (plural chawls)

  1. A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
    • I came from a chawl, and when I started out main zyada baat nahi karta tha, mera haath zyada chalta tha (both laugh!2016 June 19, “Tiger Shroff: My father is the original hero, he doesn’t have to try like me. I fake it.”, in The Times of India

Noun (2)

chawl (plural chawls)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Jaw or cheek.
  2. (UK, dialectal) Jowl; cheek; face.

Questions about chawls

What is chawls the plural of?
Chawls is the plural of chawl.

Words near chawls in the dictionary

  1. chawkies
  2. chawkis
  3. chawl
  4. Chawla
  5. Chawlas
  6. chawls
  7. Chawmos
  8. chawn
  9. chawnce
  10. chawnces
  11. Chawner

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