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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.

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  • 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.

 

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