Definition of "boyars" [boyars]

• Plural form of boyar. (noun)

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• "The boyars were the senior aristocracy, the only force in the country capable of competing with the tsar-often with catastrophic results."
• "His enemies-called the boyars-wanted the earth divided into several countries, allowing each a nation to tyrannize ruthlessly, with the terrible retaining the power to rubber-stamp their rulings and little else."
• ""The old nobility of those Russian countries are called boyars," said"