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nawab

noun
na·​wab | \ nə-ˈwäb How to pronounce nawab (audio) \

Definition of nawab

: nabob
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Examples of nawab in a Sentence

a meeting with the nawabs on the university's board of trustees

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 In 1757, the East India Company commander Robert Clive defeated Bengal’s local ruler, or nawab, in battle and consolidated the company’s power in the province. — Maya Jasanoff, The New York Review of Books, "Lost Calcutta," 23 May 2019

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First Known Use of nawab

1682, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for nawab

Urdu nawāb

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