Definition of "nabob" []

• A governor in India under the Mogul Empire. Also called nawab. (noun)
• A person of wealth and prominence. (noun)

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• "I introduced him to her, and left her to improve the impression: 'tis well I was married in time; a nabob is a dangerous rival."
• "The family name, indeed, may stem from the same Arabic root as the word nabob, having been brought into Russia by the fourteenth-century Tatar prince Nabok Murza."
• "One morning, passing through Vessory Bazar, I was greatly shocked at seeing the nabob's elephant take up a little child in his trunk and dash its brains out against the ground; the only reason that could be observed was, that the child had thrown some pebble stones at it; and the only redress the poor disconsolate mother could obtain was a gift of fifty pagodas from the nabob, which is about equal to twenty pounds sterling."