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
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 Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
I am not going to describe the ranee's palace, because I really have never seen the palace of a ranee, and Mr Kipling has.
From The Phoenix and the Carpet by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
Had he been called on to meet them without having the ranee to defend, he would not have hesitated; but the risk was too great to run if it could be avoided.
From The Young Rajah by Gruine, W.G.C.
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.
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