(in South Asia) a large building divided into many separate tenements, offering cheap, basic accommodation to labourers.
Example sentencesExamples
- And we, who reside in the overcrowded chawls, we simply live.
- He has not forgotten the crowded chawl he lived in before he got his first break.
- For the first time, Muslim women from the chawls and slums came forward said Irfan.
- When the textile mills were set up in Bombay the employers were required to provide housing in the form of chawls for their workers.
- They lived together in a room apartment in a chawl owned by the local touts.