godown
/ˈɡəʊdaʊn
/ /ɡəʊˈdaʊn /noun
(In eastern Asia, especially India) a warehouse.Those East End thoroughfares like East India Dock Road were full of commercial stores and warehouses and godowns....
- He said the Federation had initiated a number of steps for construction of godowns and providing warehousing facilities to meet the demand for storage space.
- The city's skyline was alight with fires rising from timber godowns and warehouses.
Origin
Late 16th century: from Portuguese gudão, from Tamil kiṭaṅku, Malayalam kiṭaṅṅu, or Kannada gadaṅgu 'store, warehouse'.
Rhymes
- state socialist
- state space
- statesperson
- states' righter
- states' rights
- States' Rights Democratic Party
- stateswoman
- state system
- state tenant
- state terrorism
- state trial
- state trooper
- state university
- state variable
- state vector
- state visit
- statewide
- statewise
- state worship
- stathmograph
- stathmokinesis
- stathmokinetic
- static
- -static
- statical