ranee
Americannoun
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the wife of a rajah.
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a reigning queen or princess.
noun
Etymology
Origin of ranee
1690–1700; < Hindi rānī < Sanskrit rājñī queen (feminine derivative of rājan king)
Example Sentences
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Programs ranee from field trips for the underprivileged to lessons in offshore engineering for the gifted.
From Time Magazine Archive
They probably looked on with astonishment at the familiar way their leader and the young stranger were conversing with the ranee, so contrary to the customs of the country.
From The Young Rajah by W.G.C. Gruine
On they came, yelling like fiends; but they did not fire, apparently for fear of wounding the ranee.
From The Young Rajah by W.G.C. Gruine
An apartment was quickly made ready for the ranee.
From The Young Rajah by W.G.C. Gruine
One of the first impulses of the Warreners, when the tents were pitched in the old cantonments, and the troops were dismissed, was to ride with their father to the house of the ranee.
From In Times of Peril by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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