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Definition: NAWAB |
NAWABNoun1. A deputy ruler or viceroy in India; also, a title given by courtesy to other persons of high rank in the East. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Master | Prince, duke; (nobility); archduke, doge, elector; seignior; marland, margrave; rajah, emir, wali, sheik nizam, nawab. |
Nobility | King; (master); atheling; prince, duke; marquis, marquisate; earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret; baronet, baronetcy; knight, knighthood; count, armiger, laird; signior, seignior; esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour; emir, ameer, scherif, sharif, effendi, wali; sahib; chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave, pasha, rajah, waldgrave. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: NAWAB |
| Specialty definitions using "NAWAB": Nabob'. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nawab Sirajuddaula (1967) Chhote Nawab (1961) Rangila Nawab (1935) Nawab Sahib (1978) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Bangladesh | Bengal was absorbed into the Mughul Empire in the 16th century, and Dhaka, the seat of a nawab (the representative of the emperor), gained some importance as a provincial center. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "NAWAB" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.77% of the time. "NAWAB" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 90.77% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.23% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 65 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nawab | 8 |
india nawab | 2 |
el mouzaffar nawab | 2 |
el moudhaffar nawab | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "NAWAB"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | nabob (nabob), krösus (croesus, nabob). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | awabnay.(various references) | |
Thai | คนร่ำรวย (capital, capitalist). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "NAWAB": nawabs. (additional references) | |
Words containing "NAWAB": gnawable. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bwana. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-n-w" | |
-2 letters: aba, ana, awa, awn, baa, ban, nab, naw, wab, wan. | |
-3 letters: aa, ab, an, aw, ba, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-n-w" | |
+1 letter: bwanas, nawabs. | |
+2 letters: wannabe. | |
+3 letters: gnawable, pawnable, wannabes, waveband. | |
+4 letters: bandwagon, boatswain, brainwash, chawbacon, sweatband, waistband, washbasin, watchband, wavebands. | |
+5 letters: answerable, bandwagons, boatswains, chawbacons, handbarrow, narrowband, sweatbands, unwearable, waistbands, washbasins, watchbands. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 41 57 41 42 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .- .--. .- -... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01000001 01010111 01000001 01000010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N A W A B |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0041 0057 0041 0042 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4835573536 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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