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chowkedar

chowkedar 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 chowkedar

pluralchowkedars

Questions about chowkedar

What is chowkedar the alternative form of?
Chowkedar is the alternative form of chaukidar.

Words near chowkedar in the dictionary

  1. chowing
  2. chowing down
  3. chowk
  4. chowkat
  5. chowkats
  6. chowkedar
  7. chowkedars
  8. chowki
  9. chowkidar
  10. chowkidars
  11. chowkis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chowkedar (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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