chowk
Britishnoun
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(often in place names) a marketplace or market area
Vijay Chowk
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a courtyard
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a road junction or roundabout
Etymology
Origin of chowk
from Hindi cauk
Example Sentences
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Mr Paras then went to the labour chowk - a place in Agra where daily-wage labourers gathered every morning in the hope of finding work.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2024
Others were sent back, and joined the detachment shuffling for their shoes in the chowk.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
My company, with some of Hodson's Horse and two artillery guns, formed a guard for the civil commissioner in the chowk or principal square of the town.
From Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude by Forbes-Mitchell, William
A good deal of my spare time, while Jane was hors de combat, was spent in the jewellers' shops of the Chandni chowk, the principal merchants' quarter of Delhi.
From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.
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