Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A king or prince in India ranking above a rajah, especially the sovereign of one of the former native states.
- n. Used as a title for such a king or prince.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of maharaja.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja
Etymologies
- Sanskrit mahārājaḥ : mahā-, great; + rājā, king (variant of rājā, king). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The title maharajah, meaning "great king," had been claimed by the Dali kings.”
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
“Mussulmans among them, though the maharajah is a Hindoo.”
“The krewe's royalty is referred to as the maharajah and the maharanee.”
“I call him the maharajah of Washington power dining," says Lyndon Boozer, a telecommunications lobbyist whose mother was President Lyndon B.”
The Washington Post: Restaurateur Ashok Bajaj: Potentate of the D.C. plate
“The 100-seat elegant dining room of Junoon seems fit for the maharajah.”
“And will the major ever succeed in reuniting a pair of Churchill shooters given to his father by a maharajah and divided between his sons at his death?”
Reader reviews of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson.
“Kashmir was an independent princely state under the British Raj ruled by a Hindu maharajah.”
The Huffington Post: Eric Margolis: Kashmir Could Start a Nuclear War
“The sepulchral interiors made it easy to sense the presence of my forebears and my mother's tales came surging back: the cook who grew steadily fatter and fell under suspicion of stealing and eating Uncle Hubert's pet pigeons; the maharajah who tipped my grandmother with a large ruby for nursing him; the shrieks when a cobra was discovered in the bathroom.”
“It's the palace of a maharajah, made into an inn, where you are offered all the pleasures befitting a maharajah and none of the duties of being one.”
“Kashmir does not constitute a negotiation in which Washington should get involved, even if it is 97 percent Muslim (in the Kashmir portion of the Jammu and Kashmir state) and was handed over to India by its Hindu maharajah in 1947.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘maharajah’.
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Words that I could probably spell correctly without having to look them up every single damn time were it not for an apparently extraneous and randomly placed h.
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About leaders, particularly the authority-figure at the top of the tree.
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
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words with alot of one particular vowel or a series of "ordered" vowels
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Honorifics
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rulers, leaders & politicians
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