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
This confirmed them in the belief that the ranee was imprisoned within, and that only by the plan they proposed could her liberation be effected.
From The Young Rajah by Gruine, W.G.C.
The ranee then motioned to them to sit down upon two cushions near her; and saying to Ahrab, "It is very hot, and they are only boys," removed the veil from her face.
From In Times of Peril by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
“Had the ranee, whom I had undertaken to conduct to her grandfather, been injured, the case would have been very different,” he observed.
From The Young Rajah by Gruine, W.G.C.
Wouldn't you like to be a ranee, Allegro?
From The Keeper of the Door by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)
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