Definition of "maharani" [maharani]

• The wife of a maharajah. (noun)
• A princess in India ranking above a rani, especially the sovereign ruler of one of the former native states. (noun)
• Used as a title for such a woman. (noun)

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• "Chelsea smoothed her French twist hairstyle with her hands and burst from the stall, emitting attitude like a pissed-off maharani."
• "She sounds anxious; instinctively, she reaches down beside the bed to touch the tapered fingers of a hand, a bronze, cast from the slender arm of a young maharani, a friend from the Thirties."
• "Titled jet-setters, a maharajah and maharani, a baroness somebody in a beaded mask."