: a broad flight of steps that is situated on an Indian riverbank and that provides access to the water especially for bathing
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Everywhere people bathe along the river’s hundreds of ghats (stone steps), many hop bamboo-platformed ferry boats, prayers and music ring out from towns behind jute plantations.
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Alex Greggery, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2024
Devout Hindus go there to die so that they can be cremated on the ghats or on floating rafts and have their ashes can be strewn on the water to free them from the cycle of death and rebirth.
—New York Times, 23 Dec. 2019
Varanasi has many steps, called ghats, leading down to the river Ganga.
—Neha J Hiranandani, Quartz India, 16 Oct. 2019
Prakash rows up and down the ghats every day in the hot sun to support his wife and three daughters.
—Helen Regan and Omar Khan, CNN, 20 May 2019
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Alex Greggery, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2024
Devout Hindus go there to die so that they can be cremated on the ghats or on floating rafts and have their ashes can be strewn on the water to free them from the cycle of death and rebirth.
—New York Times, 23 Dec. 2019
Varanasi has many steps, called ghats, leading down to the river Ganga.
—Neha J Hiranandani, Quartz India, 16 Oct. 2019
Prakash rows up and down the ghats every day in the hot sun to support his wife and three daughters.
—Helen Regan and Omar Khan, CNN, 20 May 2019
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“Ghat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghat. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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