Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A provincial governor in the Ottoman Empire.
- noun A ruler of the former kingdom of Tunis.
- noun Used as the title for such a ruler.
- noun Used formerly as a title for various Turkish and Egyptian dignitaries.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The governor of a minor province or sanjak of the Turkish empire.
- noun A title of respect given in Turkey to members of princely families, sons of pashas, military officers above the rank of major, the wealthy gentry, and, by courtesy, to eminent foreigners.
- noun The title usually given by foreigners to the former Mohammedan rulers of Tunis. Frequently written beg.
- A Middle English form of
buy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A governor of a province or district in the
Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the governor of a district or province in the Ottoman Empire
- noun (formerly) a title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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[13: 39] matociquala: Blah blah bey is no use blah zombies blah.
illustrative of the process.... matociquala 2009
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Maqui xcaho [c] amoh bey, xecha, ta [c] ama ka bey, at kacha [t], at etamayom, xecha chike.
The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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The brown eye gene, called bey 2, is made up of a brown allele, or B, and a blue allele, or b.
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_He_ neber done no wrong; he allers 'bey'd his massa, and neber said no hard word, nor found no fault, not eben w'en de cruel, bad oberseer put de load so heaby on him dat it kill him.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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I look on the right hand side of the page and I see michael bey.
The “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” Scavenger Hunt » Scene-Stealers 2009
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If it was ever a dispute about whose the hottest in the game, between bey and riri, then this definitely proves Rihanna won hands down right?!?!?!?
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At the time, my then-husband and I were New Peace Corps volunteers, and we "inherited" this palace of a 19th-century minister of the bey of Tunis from Peace Corps architects who'd lived there during their service.
Rachael Freed: The Importance of Telling Our Stories Rachael Freed 2010
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At the time, my then-husband and I were New Peace Corps volunteers, and we "inherited" this palace of a 19th-century minister of the bey of Tunis from Peace Corps architects who'd lived there during their service.
Rachael Freed: The Importance Of Telling Our Stories Rachael Freed 2010
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At the time, my then-husband and I were New Peace Corps volunteers, and we "inherited" this palace of a 19th-century minister of the bey of Tunis from Peace Corps architects who'd lived there during their service.
Rachael Freed: The Importance Of Telling Our Stories Rachael Freed 2010
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The lesson for the rest of the world is that efforts to create international institutions with real political authority are not going to succeed if they go bey ond popular willingness to yield sovereignty to remote institutions predominantly staffed by foreigners.
chained_bear commented on the word bey
"...first Allen and then Graham explained that in the outlying provinces of the Turkish empire the valis, pashas, agas and beys, though in principle subject to the Sultan, often behaved like independent rulers, increasing their territories by usurpation or by making open war upon one another..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 260-261
February 14, 2008