ghat
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ɡɔːt/, /ɡɑːt/
ghat (plural ghats)
- (India) A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place.
- 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic 2009, p. 16:
- Chunks of wood were being built into funeral pyres on the steps of the ghat that went down into the water; four bodies were burning on the ghat steps when we got there.
- 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic 2009, p. 16:
- (India) A mountain range.
- (India) A mountain pass.
- A steep ravine leading to the sea.
- (India) A burning-ghat.
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