maharajah
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of maharajah
1690–1700; < Hindi mahārājā great king, equivalent to mahā- great + rājā rajah
Vocabulary lists containing maharajah
South Asia - Introductory
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Example Sentences
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Air India, with its maharajah mascot, was once known for its lavishly decorated planes and stellar service, but its reputation declined in the mid-2000s as financial troubles mounted.
From Reuters • Jun. 20, 2023
In Baroda, in the west, a journalist found that the maharajah there allocated $5 to every 55 of his subjects for education, as opposed to $5 per 1000 people in British India.
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2021
There is no city plaque on the house designating it a landmark, nor any street named after Peterson, a dazzling, finger-flying pianist and 20th-century musical giant whom Duke Ellington called “the maharajah of the keyboard.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 10, 2020
The maharajah stopped buying after the maharani suddenly died in 1937 at age 22.
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2019
The maharajah of Kapurthala, visiting that week from India, sat in a makeshift throne on the ballroom stage fanned by three servants.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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