Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun In India and East Asia, a warehouse, especially one at a dockside.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A draught of liquor.
- noun A cutting in the bank of a stream for enabling animals to cross or to get to the water.
- noun In India, China, Japan, etc., a warehouse or storehouse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun East Indies A warehouse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun India, East Africa, Singapore, Malaysia A
warehouse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (in India and Malaysia) a warehouse
- verb be recorded or remembered
- verb move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- verb be ingested
- verb be defeated
- verb disappear beyond the horizon
- verb grow smaller
- verb stop operating
- verb go under,
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The dumpers were parked in the company's godown, which is manned by security guards.
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The dumpers were parked in the company's godown, which is manned by security guards.
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A short time ago a fine young tiger was brought alive to Captain Shaw, and he ordered a proper cage to be made, in which to send him to England, telling Babu, the "double Hadji," to put it into the "godown" in its bamboo cage; but the man put it into the kitchen, and in the morning the cage was found broken into pieces, the kitchen shutters torn down, and the tiger gone!
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883
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The Sultan has a "godown" containing great treasures, concerning which he leads an anxious life – hoards of diamonds and rubies, and priceless damascened krises, with scabbards of pure gold wrought into marvelous devices and incrusted with precious stones.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883
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And then, of course, there are vestigeal words and expressions from British English that continue to be used in Indian English, such as "godown" and "brinjal"; or uniquely Indian formations such as "prepone" (which, by the way, has been admitted conditionally by the most recent editions of some standard British dictionaries).
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And perhaps when everyone is treated with respect, the incidences will godown.
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All of whom would laugh out loud at the idea that revenues “always” go up when tax rates godown.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Further Left You Are the Less You Know About Economics: 2010
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All of whom would laugh out loud at the idea that revenues “always” go up when tax rates godown.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Further Left You Are the Less You Know About Economics: 2010
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SG: I still want to know, as I asked in another thread, where did the notion come from that if we all pass the bill for our personal health consumption to the person to our left, the total cost will godown.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Crisis, the Health Care Bill, and the Growth of Government 2010
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And perhaps when everyone is treated with respect, the incidences will godown.
chained_bear commented on the word godown
"We did lose ten, not having time to comb through all the bawdy-houses or the backsides of godowns."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 178–179
March 4, 2008