\ ˈshä
, ˈshȯ\
, ˈshȯ\
Definition of shah
: a sovereign of Iran
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Other Words from shah
shahdom
\ ˈshä-dəm
, ˈshȯ- \
noun
, ˈshȯ- \
noun
Examples of shah in a Sentence
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Two weeks after Carter authorized the shah to enter the country, Iranian students overran the embassy, a 27-acre compound on the outskirts of Tehran. — Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, "Bruce Laingen, top-ranking US diplomat held in Iran hostage crisis, dies at 96," 18 July 2019 The group also helped the country’s Shiite Muslim clerics topple the shah during the 1979 revolution. — Los Angeles Times, "This Iranian opposition group was labeled a terrorist organization. Now it has supporters in the White House," 29 July 2019 Two weeks after Carter authorized the shah to enter the country, Iranian students overran the embassy, a 27-acre compound on the outskirts of Tehran. — Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, "Bruce Laingen, top-ranking US diplomat held in Iran hostage crisis, dies at 96," 18 July 2019 Two weeks after Carter authorized the shah to enter the country, Iranian students overran the embassy, a 27-acre compound on the outskirts of Tehran. — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, "Bruce Laingen, top-ranking U.S. diplomat held in Iran hostage crisis, dies at 96," 17 July 2019 Just four months earlier, supporters of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a Shi’ite cleric, had overthrown the shah and briefly occupied the US Embassy, triggering the departure of William Sullivan, the last US ambassador to Iran. — Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, "Bruce Laingen, top-ranking US diplomat held in Iran hostage crisis, dies at 96," 18 July 2019 They were owned by the shah of Iran and the maharishis of India. — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, "A man who can build a car by hand leads Ford into future; 'He’s just never afraid'," 19 June 2019 Khamenei, who was then Iran’s President, was in New York for the U.N. General Assembly—the first visit by a top revolutionary leader since the 1979 upheaval that overthrew the shah. — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, "A Tanker War in the Middle East—Again?," 14 June 2019 That help ended once Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution overthrew the shah. — Washington Post, "AP EXPLAINS: What is Iran’s atomic deal? Why is it targeted?," 8 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'shah.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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shah
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English Language Learners Definition of shah
: a king of Iran in past times
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