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Webster 1913 Edition


Godown

Go-down′

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Noun.
[Corruption of Malay
gādong
warehouse.]
A warehouse.
[East Indies]

Definition 2024


godown

godown

See also: go down

English

Noun

godown (plural godowns)

  1. (India, East Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) A warehouse.
    • 2011, Terry Pratchett, Snuff, page 307 in hardback:
      Sam Vimes awoke from a pig's nightmare to find himself lying on a pile of sacks in a godown in the docks.