godown
US/ˈɡoʊ̯daʊ̯n/
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South Asia/ɡʊˈɖawn/
godown noun: a warehouse.
Noun
godown (plural godowns)
- A warehouse.
- Ordered that the new House in the Fort be forthwith built according to a modell now produced an approved, being 110 foot in length and 55 foot in breadth to be built on the East side the Fort at 18 Foot distance from the godown wall, and at equal distance from the north and south walls.1694, Fort St. George Diary and Consultation Book, entry for 30 April, 1694, Madras: 1918, p. 45
- They retired round the corner of the godown and watched Willems curiously through the night, till the short daybreak was followed by the sudden blaze of the rising sun, and Almayer's establishment woke up to life and work.1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter VII, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part I, page 79
godown meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
godown in Tamil
- கிடங்கு, களஞ்சியசாலை
godown in Urdu
- گودام
godown in Bengali
- godown, warehouse
- গুদাম gudam
godown in Telugu
- a godown, a warehouse, a storehouse
- గిడ్డంగి giḍḍaṅgi
More languagesFewer languages
- godown in Malayalam
- ഗോഡൗൺ gōḍauṇ, ഗുദാം gudāṁ
- godown in Kannada
- ಗಡಂಗ, ಗಡಂಗು, ಗಿಡ್ಡಂಗಿ, ಕೋಠಿ
- godown in Gujarati
- ગોદામ godām
- godown in Assamese
- গুদাম gudam
Examples of godown in a sentence
- There is a sort of village square with wood and palm-leaf native shops grouped round about it; behind this stands a godown for the rice beside the river bank.1950, Neville Shute, chapter 4, in A Town Like Alice, London: The Reprint Society, published 1952, page 101:
- At last a certain merchant purchased the weedy little garden in the center of the Old Quarter and built godowns and shops upon its flower beds.1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXXIII, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 196:
- Sam Vimes awoke from a pig's nightmare to find himself lying on a pile of sacks in a godown in the docks.2011, Terry Pratchett, Snuff, page 307 in hardback
Forms of godown
| plural | godowns |
|---|---|
| alternative form (archaic) | goedown |
Origin of godown
Borrowed from Malay gudang, from Tamil கிடங்கு (kiṭaṅku, “store room”) or Telugu గిడ్డంగి (giḍḍaṅgi, “store room, warehouse”).
Questions about godown
- What does godown mean?
- Godown means a warehouse.
- What is godown in Tamil?
- Godown in Tamil is கிடங்கு, களஞ்சியசாலை. See Godown meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use godown in a sentence?
- There is a sort of village square with wood and palm-leaf native shops grouped round about it; behind this stands a godown for the rice beside the river bank.
- What part of speech is godown?
- Godown is a noun.
- How do you pronounce godown?
- Godown is pronounced /ˈɡoʊ̯daʊ̯n/ (US).
- What is the plural of godown?
- The plural of godown is godowns.
Words near godown in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: godown (page history and authors); godown (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); godown (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); গুদাম (Bengali) (page history and authors); గిడ్డంగి (Telugu) (page history and authors); ഗുദാം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); godown (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ગોદામ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); গুদাম (Assamese) (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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