jai

/ dʒæ /

interjection

1. victory (to)

Word History and Origins

Origin of jai¹

Hindi jaya victory

Example Sentences

During the ride, Jai Johany plays lacy Afro jazz on a cassette machine, frowning, saying nothing.

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Early the next morning, “Frown,” Jai Johany Johnson, is living up to his nickname in the hotel restaurant.

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Sometimes a little jai alai in the living room with ripe guavas for balls and live pelicans for baskets.

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The scalloped verandas and cupolas which create the effect of the kind of castle a child imagines, were the innovations of Jai.

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Touchingly the Princess lived at Lilypond, her property on the estate, after Jai's death in 1978, until her own last year.

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Some fine types of dials on a large scale exist in the observatories built by Jai Singh.

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Thakur Jai Chand had an excellent jamadar whom he sent to meet the baggage coming from India.

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Rissalder Jai Singh was ordered to mount and ride forward with two sowars to bring the party to a halt.

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Ere night fell, Jai Singh and a sowar made an extensive reconnaissance on horseback beyond the perimeter of the village.

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And now the sowar was speeding to the agreed rendezvous to apprise Roger and Jai Singh that all had gone well thus far.

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