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durwaun

durwaun is the alternative form of durwan.

Meaning of durwan

Noun

durwan (plural durwans)

  1. (India) A live-in doorkeeper, especially in an apartment building.
    • Old Mattu, the Hindu durwan who looked after the European church, was standing in the sunlight below the veranda.1934, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Burmese Days

Forms of durwaun

pluraldurwauns

Questions about durwaun

What is durwaun the alternative form of?
Durwaun is the alternative form of durwan.

Words near durwaun in the dictionary

  1. durvalumab
  2. Durvasa
  3. durving
  4. durwan
  5. durwans
  6. durwaun
  7. durwauns
  8. durwaza bund
  9. Durweston
  10. Dury
  11. Duryea

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Adapted from Wiktionary: durwaun (page history and authors); durwan (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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