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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In the time of Chukri Bey they were kind, faithful dragomen who did their best to save us from being swindled in the bazaars.
From A Prisoner in Turkey by John Still
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
Cairo is the successor of Memphis, and 'the caste' of the dragomen is not yet extinct.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Only in the marble court-yard below us, a few dragomen and mukkairee lingered under the lemon-trees, and beside the fountain in the centre.
From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor
Before it can do so, he has to finish his wanderings and his sight-seeing, to be quit of his dragomen and of the topographical chronology that he built upon their stories.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
