Word Meanings - NABOB - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A deputy or viceroy in India; a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire. 2. One who returns to Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth. " A bilious old nabob." Macaulay.
Related words: (words related to NABOB)
- INDIANEER
An Indiaman. - RICHESSE
Wealth; riches. See the Note under Riches. Some man desireth for to have richesse. Chaucer. The richesse of all heavenly grace. Spenser. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - IMMENSENESS
The state of being immense. - BILIOUSNESS
The state of being bilious. - INDIA RUBBER
. See Caoutchouc. - GREAT-GRANDSON
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter. - EMPIRE STATE
New York; -- a nickname alluding to its size and wealth. - GOVERNORSHIP
The office of a governor. - GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity. - RICHES
1. That which makes one rich; an abundance of land, goods, money, or other property; wealth; opulence; affluence. Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion, than our neighbors. Locke. 2. That - EMPIRE STATE OF THE WEST
Missouri; -- a nickname. - WEALTHINESS
The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence. - GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother. - INDIAMAN
A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay. - WEALTHFUL
Full of wealth; wealthy; prosperous. Sir T. More. -- Wealth"ful*ly, adv. - EMPIRE STATE OF THE SOUTH
Georgia; -- a nickname. - GREATLY
1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden. - GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter. - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby. - HEREHENCE
From hence. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - PLEUROPERITONEUM
The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided. Note: Peritoneum - EAST INDIAN
Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n. - THENCEFROM
From that place. - LINDIA
A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.