dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/naw_MW.json
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{
"nawab":{
"antonyms":[
"lightweight",
"nobody",
"nonentity",
"nothing",
"shrimp",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper",
"zero",
"zilch"
],
"definitions":{
": nabob":[]
},
"examples":[
"a meeting with the nawabs on the university's board of trustees",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Oudh descendants in Kolkata, where the nawab died in exile, had also rejected their claim. \u2014 Ellen Barry, New York Times , 22 Nov. 2019",
"In 1757, the East India Company commander Robert Clive defeated Bengal\u2019s local ruler, or nawab , in battle and consolidated the company\u2019s power in the province. \u2014 Maya Jasanoff, The New York Review of Books , 23 May 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1682, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Urdu naw\u0101b":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"n\u0259-\u02c8w\u00e4b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"big",
"big boy",
"big cheese",
"big gun",
"big leaguer",
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"big-timer",
"bigfoot",
"biggie",
"bigwig",
"fat cat",
"heavy",
"heavy hitter",
"heavyweight",
"high-muck-a-muck",
"high-muckety-muck",
"honcho",
"kahuna",
"kingfish",
"kingpin",
"major leaguer",
"muckety-muck",
"muck-a-muck",
"mucky-muck",
"nabob",
"nibs",
"nob",
"pooh-bah",
"poo-bah",
"wheel"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-095708",
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}