ghat
or ghaut
a wide set of steps descending to a river, especially a river used for bathing.
a mountain pass.
a mountain range or escarpment.
Origin of ghat
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How to use ghat in a sentence
Waste was being discharged into the river, and I found the water at the ghats of Kanpur too dirty for my daily dip, so I decided to visit the opposite bank, where the water is clean.
A thousand or more natives were bathing ceremoniously in the ghat—men, women and children.
The Adventures of Kathlyn | Harold MacGrathghat is an important centre of the caravan trade between the Nigerian states and the seaports of the Mediterranean (see Tripoli).
In due course the ship arrived off Prinseps ghat, the first of her kind to come up the river so far.
Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army | Charles Alexander GordonA sumptuous and costly djener awaits us in the zyat, or travellers rest-house at the ghat.
Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army | Charles Alexander Gordon
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
/ (ɡɔːt) /
stairs or a passage leading down to a river
a mountain pass or mountain range
a place of cremation
Origin of ghat
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