ghat

or ghaut

[ gawt, got ]

/ gɔt, gɒt /

noun (in India)

a wide set of steps descending to a river, especially a river used for bathing.

a mountain pass.

a mountain range or escarpment.

Nearby words

Origin of ghat

1595–1605; < Hindi ghāṭ < Sanskrit ghaṭṭa

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Examples from the Web for ghat

It was not until he had reached the second ghat and climbed the steps there that Akbar put himself in Napoleon's class.
Caves of Terror|Talbot Mundy
Ghat, well situated in the centre of an oasis, was next reached.
Great African Travellers|W.H.G. Kingston
This is the ghat where some 600 helpless people were slain, in spite of a promise of safe-conduct from the Nana.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5|Various
This gap affords a passage to the winds which elsewhere are barred by the hills of the Ghat chain.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 4|Various

More by token I had come out on the river-line close to the burnin' ghat and contagious to a cracklin' corpse.
Soldier Stories|Rudyard Kipling

British Dictionary definitions for ghat

ghat

/ (ɡɔːt) /

noun (in India)

stairs or a passage leading down to a river

a mountain pass or mountain range

a place of cremation

Word Origin for ghat

C17: from Hindi ghāt, from Sanskrit ghatta

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Word Origin and History for ghat

ghat

also ghaut, from Hindi, "pass, mountain," from Sanskrit ghattah "landing place," of unknown origin.