nabob|nabobs in English

noun

[na·bob || 'neɪbɑb /'neɪbɒb]

regional director, viceroy (in India); person (especially a European) who has had great success and become rich in India or in another eastern country; very important person; extremely rich perso

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1. FRDRIC MISTRAL CHARLES ALFRED DOWNER And his glance, anxious and Beseeching, sought the Nabob, as though to demand his pardon for all these paradoxical impertinences

2. Allenton Unincorporated Communities Ackerville * Aurora * Boltonville * Cedar Creek * Cedar Lake * Cheeseville * Colgate * Diefenbach Corners * Fillmore * Hubertus * Kirchhayn * Kohlsville * Mayfield * Myra * Nenno * Nabob * Orchard Grove * Pike Lake * Pleasant Hill * Rockfield *

3. ‘A Croesus who will metamorphose into a philanthropist prepared to take on the giants of industry.’ Synonyms rich person , capitalist, tycoon, magnate, nabob, millionaire, billionaire, multimillionaire, nouveau riche, person of means

4. Tycoon, leader, chief, fat cat (slang, chiefly U.S.), mogul, bigwig (informal), big shot (informal), big cheese (slang, old-fashioned), plutocrat, nabob (informal), Mister Big (slang, chiefly U.S.) the battle against the drug Barons

5. The Nabobs sail home to England with their plunder (""profits of twenty five percent were regarded as a sign of the moderate man""); the Orientalists fight for Indians to be educated in their own languages (a worthwhile reminder, after Edward Said)--and lose out to the Anglicizers, Macaulay adjudicating.