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dowar

dowar is the alternative form of douar.

Meaning of douar

Noun

douar (plural douars)

  1. A camp or village of tents in a North African country.
    • “A slave would be the better word,” she answered. “I was stolen in the night from my father’s douar by a band of marauders. They brought me here and sold me to the Arab who keeps this café.”1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 65

Forms of dowar

pluraldowars

Questions about dowar

What is dowar the alternative form of?
Dowar is the alternative form of douar.

Words near dowar in the dictionary

  1. dowagerly
  2. dowagers
  3. dowagers' humps
  4. dowages
  5. dowak
  6. dowar
  7. dowars
  8. Dowbiggin
  9. Dowbiggins
  10. dowd
  11. dowd cap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dowar (page history and authors); douar (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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