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goedown

goedown is the archaic form of godown.

Meaning of godown

Noun

godown (plural godowns)

  1. (Africa, East, Hong-Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore) 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

Forms of goedown

pluralgoedowns

Questions about goedown

What is goedown the archaic form of?
Goedown is the archaic form of godown.

Words near goedown in the dictionary

  1. Goedens
  2. Goedert
  3. Goederts
  4. Goedes
  5. goedkenite
  6. goedown
  7. goedowns
  8. goeduck
  9. goeducks
  10. Goehring
  11. Goehrings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: goedown (page history and authors); godown (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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