nabob

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On the morrow, the 16th of April, he sent for the professor to his office The request of the nabob was an order for Tartlet.

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  1. noun A governor in India under the Mogul Empire. Also called nawab.
  2. noun A person of wealth and prominence.

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  • Willard Kipring Parker Spanner was a nabob, a somebody, a big shot. —  027 - The Secret In The Sky
  • That would have been the end of it if the nabob wasn't deceptive in his nonchalance. —  Johanna Lindsey - Tender Rebel
  • In a few years I shall return thence a rich nabob, and bring fine dowries for our three sisters." —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
  • On the morrow, the 16th of April, he sent for the professor to his office The request of the nabob was an order for Tartlet. —  Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery
  • By-the-way, from the manner in which you alluded to the world's census, it would appear that, according to your world-wide scheme, the pauper not less than the nabob is to contribute to the relief of pauperism, and the heathen not less than the Christian to the conversion of heathenism. —  The Confidence-Man
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  1. Hindi nawāb, nabāb, from Arabic nuwwāb, pl. of nā'ib, deputy, active participle of nāba, to represent; see nwb in Semitic roots.

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  1. Also (in defs. 1, 2) nawab; cf. French nabab = Spanish nabab = Portuguese nababo = Italian naba = German nabob, a nabob (def. 3), from English; from Hindustani nawwāb, a deputy governor, from Arabic nawwāb, plural (used as singular, a s a title of honor) of nāib (later Turk, nāib), a deputy, viceroy; cf. nawb, supplying the place of another.
 

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