English Explanatory Dictionary

chawl

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
noun
  1. Jaw or cheek.
  2. Jowl; cheek; face.

Word forms

chawl chawls

Etymology

Borrowed from Marathi चाळ (cāḷ), from Sanskrit. Doublet of cell.

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