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dewan

or di·wan

[ dih-wahn, -wawn ]

noun

  1. any of certain officials in India, such as a financial minister or prime minister of an Indian state.


dewan

/ dɪˈwɑːn /

noun

  1. (formerly in India) the chief minister or finance minister of a state ruled by an Indian prince
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dewan1

First recorded in 1680–90; from Hindi: “minister (of state)” from Persian dēvan “register”; divan 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dewan1

C17: from Hindi dīwān, from Persian dēvan register, book of accounts; see divan
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Example Sentences

Kravitz, the daughter of rocker Lenny Kravitz and actor Lisa Bonet, began dating Tatum in 2021 shortly after they broke up with their respective spouses, actor Karl Glusman and actor-dancer Jenna Dewan.

Tatum and Dewan, who share a 13-year-old daughter, finalized their protracted divorce in September.

As noted by Pandora Dewan at Newsweek, "fiberglass is a reinforced plastic material embedded with extremely fine fibers of glass."

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Shaila Dewan reviewed police reports and court transcripts, and visited the scenes of a dozen fatal shootings in Columbus.

For this article, Shaila Dewan reviewed hundreds of pages of police and court records and traveled to northern Kentucky to retrace Randy Sellers’s movements in the hours before he disappeared.

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