jemadar
Americannoun
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any of various government officials.
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the supervisor of a staff of servants.
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an officer in a sepoy regiment, corresponding in rank to a lieutenant.
noun
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a native junior officer belonging to a locally raised regiment serving as mercenaries in India, esp with the British Army (until 1947)
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an officer in the Indian police
Etymology
Origin of jemadar
1755–65; < Urdu jamadar, variant of jamdar < Persian < Arabic jamʿ aggregation + Persian dār holding, leader of
Example Sentences
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The Colonel then gave the jemadar of our party a present of 25 dollars, and to each of the privates 20 dollars, to set themselves up for the journey.
From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
There was no difficulty, as the jemadar foresaw.
From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
"Gone an hour!" shouted the enraged jemadar; "who told them of the attack?"
From In Times of Peril by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
This Mehrab Khan was jemadar of the Levy Sowars, and wore a sort of khaki uniform and a blue turban and kulla.
From The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier by Bertram Mitford
A few days before all this, I was standing about in the bazaar, when I met a jemadar.
From Strange Stories by Grant Allen
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