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Definition of "vizier" []

  • A high officer in a Muslim government, especially in the Ottoman Empire. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "vizier" in a sentence
  • "The leading passion of the vizier was the love of receiving presents."
  • "The establishment of a vizier is a fundamental law of despotism."
  • "In the reign of Meneptah of the nineteenth dynasty the vizier was a native of Bashan, Ben-Mazana by name, whose father was called Yu the elder."