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chowkidar

chowkidar 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 chowkidar

pluralchowkidars

Questions about chowkidar

What is chowkidar the alternative form of?
Chowkidar is the alternative form of chaukidar.

Words near chowkidar in the dictionary

  1. chowkat
  2. chowkats
  3. chowkedar
  4. chowkedars
  5. chowki
  6. chowkidar
  7. chowkidars
  8. chowkis
  9. chowks
  10. chowline
  11. chowlines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chowkidar (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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