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
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
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
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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