Word Meanings - NABOB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A deputy or viceroy in India; a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire. 2. One who returns to Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth. " A bilious old nabob." Macaulay.

Related words: (words related to NABOB)

• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• RICHESSE
  Wealth; riches. See the Note under Riches. Some man desireth for to have richesse. Chaucer. The richesse of all heavenly grace. Spenser.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• IMMENSENESS
  The state of being immense.
• BILIOUSNESS
  The state of being bilious.
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• EMPIRE STATE
  New York; -- a nickname alluding to its size and wealth.
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• RICHES
  1. That which makes one rich; an abundance of land, goods, money, or other property; wealth; opulence; affluence. Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion, than our neighbors. Locke. 2. That
• EMPIRE STATE OF THE WEST
  Missouri; -- a nickname.
• WEALTHINESS
  The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• INDIAMAN
  A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.
• WEALTHFUL
  Full of wealth; wealthy; prosperous. Sir T. More. -- Wealth"ful*ly, adv.
• EMPIRE STATE OF THE SOUTH
  Georgia; -- a nickname.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• PLEUROPERITONEUM
  The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided. Note: Peritoneum
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• LINDIA
  A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.