zemindar

American  

[zuh-meen-dahr] / zə minˈdɑr /

noun

1. a variant of zamindar.

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zemindar British  

/ zəmiːnˈdɑː /

noun

1. a variant spelling of zamindar

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Other Word Forms

• zemindari noun

Example Sentences

In all the years of our tenancy we never saw the Zemindar who owned our land.

From Literature

Kaye’s “The Far Pavilions” and Valerie Fitzgerald’s “Zemindar,” multigenerational sagas of love and loss such as Rosamunde Pilcher’s “The Shell Seekers” and Colleen McCullough’s “The Thorn Birds,” Judith Krantz’s glitzy “Scruples” and the early work of prolific Danielle Steel.

From Washington Post

One afternoon Morshead, Wollaston and I went over to have tea with our hospitable Zemindar Hopaphema about a mile away from us.

From Project Gutenberg

Learning that I was about to start off, Hopaphema, the old Zemindar, hurriedly came round with a large basket full of spinach, potatoes, and turnips, which he insisted on my taking with me.

From Project Gutenberg

I cannot make him a Rajah, nor even a Zemindar; but I 'll stick him into a regimental surgeoncy, and leave him to fashion out his own future.

From Project Gutenberg