Word.ws English Dictionary

nautches

nautches is the plural of nautch.

Meaning of nautch

Noun

nautch (plural nautches)

  1. (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, South-Asia, Sri-Lanka) A dance in the Indian subcontinent, performed by professional dancing girls.
    • ‘We will punish no one, no one,’ he repeated, ‘and in the evening we will give a great banquet with a nautch, and lovely girls shall shine on every side of the tank […].’1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 65

Questions about nautches

What is nautches the plural of?
Nautches is the plural of nautch.

Words near nautches in the dictionary

  1. nautch
  2. nautch girl
  3. nautch girls
  4. nautch-girl
  5. nautch-girls
  6. nautches
  7. nauther
  8. nautic
  9. nautical
  10. nautical chart
  11. nautical charts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nautches (page history and authors); nautch (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “nautches.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nautches. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.