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chokedar

chokedar 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 chokedar

pluralchokedars

Questions about chokedar

What is chokedar the alternative form of?
Chokedar is the alternative form of chaukidar.

Words near chokedar in the dictionary

  1. choked the chicken
  2. choked the luff
  3. choked up
  4. chokedamp
  5. chokedamps
  6. chokedar
  7. chokedars
  8. chokeful
  9. chokefull
  10. chokeheld
  11. chokehold

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chokedar (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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