ghat

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

ghat, n. [Hind. ghāt.].

•  A pass through a mountain.  J. D. Hooker.  [1913 Webster]
•  A range of mountains.  Balfour (Cyc. of Ind. ).  [1913 Webster]
•  Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf.  Malcom.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ghat, n. (also ghaut) in India:
1 steps leading down to a river.
2 a landing-place.
3 a defile or mountain pass.

Etymology

Hindi ghat

ROGET THESAURUS

ghat

Thinness

N narrowness, thinness, narrowness, closeness, exility, exiguity, line, hair's breadth, finger's breadth, strip, streak, vein, monolayer, epitaxial deposition, thinness, tenuity, emaciation, macilency, marcor, shaving, slip, thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone, middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass, ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass, ravine, narrowing, coarctation, angustation, tapering, contraction, narrow, close, slender, thin, fine, thread-like, finespun, gossamer, paper-thin, taper, slim, slight-made, scant, scanty, spare, delicate, incapacious, contracted, unexpanded &c (expand), slender as a thread, emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent, lank, lanky, weedy, skinny, scrawny slinky, starved, starveling, herring gutted, worn to a shadow, lean as a rake, thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer, hatchet-faced, lantern-jawed, attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid, marcid, barebone, rawboned, monomolecular.