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ghât

ghât is the alternative spelling of ghat.

Meaning of ghat

Noun

ghat (plural ghats)

  1. (India) A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place.
    • The abrupt escarpment of the western Ghats condenses so much of the moisture of the south-west monsoon1855, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Flora Indica
  2. (India) A burning-ghat.
    • On the steps of the Manikarnika ghat—the holiest of the city’s stepped riverbanks, upon which Hindu dead are cremated—the fires are already lit, and mourners assemble by the hundred to accompany their loved ones at the end.2023 November 30, Oliver Franklin-Wallis, “Inside India’s Gargantuan Mission to Clean the Ganges River”, in Wired, →ISSN
  3. (India) A mountain pass.
  4. (India) A mountain range.
    • And farther south, in the interior of the Peninsula, in the elevated tract from 1200 to 2400 feet above the sea, between the Eastern and Western Ghats1885, Edward Balfour, Cyclopaedia of India

Forms of ghât

pluralghâts

Questions about ghât

What is ghât the alternative spelling of?
Ghât is the alternative spelling of ghat.

Words near ghât in the dictionary

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  4. ghyll
  5. ghylls
  6. ghât
  7. ghâts
  8. gi
  9. GI can
  10. GI cans
  11. GI parties

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