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dacoits

dacoits is the plural of dacoit.

Meaning of dacoit

Noun

dacoit (plural dacoits)

  1. (India, Myanmar, Pakistan) A bandit or armed robber, especially in former parts of British India.
    • […] she had harangued us on the subject of fever and cholera and bad water, had warned us solemnly against dacoits, and now she was hinting at ghosts.1893, Bithia Mary Croker, "The Dâk Bungalow at Dakor" in "To Let" etc., Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906, p. 118, https://archive.org/details/toletcroker00crok

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What is dacoits the plural of?
Dacoits is the plural of dacoit.

Words near dacoits in the dictionary

  1. dacoitees
  2. dacoiti
  3. dacoities
  4. dacoiting
  5. dacoitis
  6. dacoits
  7. dacoity
  8. Dacological
  9. Dacology
  10. Dacomania
  11. dacomitinib

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