dragoman
noun
(in the Middle East) a professional interpreter.
dragomen
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pluralof dragoman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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We have done the best we could, however, in sending one of the outside dragomen to purchase a Bible, in which we succeeded.
From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor
This she filled with a large retinue of dragomen, women, slaves, and Albanian guards.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams
It is the order in which he visited the monuments to which the dragomen attached their names, and it thus throws a welcome light on the course of his movements.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Such was the way in which Egyptian history was constructed by the combined efforts of the popular imagination, the foreign dragomen, and Herodotos!
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
There is evidence also, that, after the Greek revolution, they took advantage of the fact that nearly all the dragomen of foreign ministers at the Turkish court were Roman Catholics.
From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. by Rufus Anderson
