ghat
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ɡɔːt/, /ɡɑːt/
Noun

ghat (plural ghats)

  1. (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.
  2. (India) A mountain range.
  3. (India) A mountain pass.
  4. A steep ravine leading to the sea.
  5. (India) A burning-ghat.



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