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nabobship

noun

Etymology

From nabob + -ship.

  1. derived from نُوَّاب
  2. derived from نَوَّاب
  3. derived from nababo
  4. suffixed as nabobship — “nabob + ship”

Definitions

  1. The rank or condition of a nabob.

    • 1687, Records of Fort St. George, Diary and Consultation Book, Madras: 1916, entry for November 1687, p. 180, […] Potty Cawn was discharged from his Nabobship, and return’d to his Governmᵗ att Changalaput […]
    • The first enceinte [of Surat] was constructed some years after, and the second some more than fifty years ago, under the nabobship of Hyder Kuli Khan

  2. A position of extremely great wealth.

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