Gounder
/ɡaʊ̯ndə(ɹ)/noun
Gounder is a noun meaning “A title used by various communities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-O-U-N-D-E-R, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Gounder is Gounders.
What does Gounder mean?
noun
- 1
IndiaA title used by various communities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Gounder?
- /ɡaʊ̯ndə(ɹ)/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Gounder
- Gounders plural
- Goundar
- Gavundar
- Kounder
- Koundar
- Kavundar
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Gounder?
Gounder appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does Gounder come from?
Borrowed from Tamil கவுண்டர் (kavuṇṭar, “protector of the country”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).