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4 lettersPronunciation /ɡɔːt/Part of speech nounSorted aghtStarts with GEnds with T0 cluesCommon crossword word
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  1. stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water

Word origin

Borrowed from Hindi घाट (ghāṭ, “pier”), from Sanskrit घट्ट (ghaṭṭa, “a landing-place, steps on the side of a river leading to the waters”), from Dravidian. Compare Telugu గట్టు (gaṭṭu, “dam, embankment”), కట్ట (kaṭṭa, “dam, embankment”), derived from కట్టు (kaṭṭu, “to tie”).

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  • The abrupt escarpment of the western Ghats condenses so much of the moisture of the south-west monsoon
  • 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.
  • And farther south, in the interior of the Peninsula, in the elevated tract from 1200 to 2400 feet above the sea, between the Eastern and Western Ghats

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