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chokidar

chokidar 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 chokidar

pluralchokidars

Questions about chokidar

What is chokidar the alternative form of?
Chokidar is the alternative form of chaukidar.

Words near chokidar in the dictionary

  1. chokha
  2. chokhas
  3. Chokhma
  4. Chokhmah
  5. Chokhorling
  6. chokidar
  7. chokidars
  8. chokier
  9. Chokierian
  10. chokies
  11. chokiest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chokidar (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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