Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a race of Hindus inhabiting western and central India, who in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries conquered and ruled many states, of which they formed a confederation, but which are now largely under British rule.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of a numerous people inhabiting the southwestern part of India. Also, the language of the Mahrattas; Mahrati. It is closely allied to Sanskrit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
Maratha . - proper noun Alternative form of
Maratha .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of a people of India living in Maharashtra
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Examples
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It was what men call a Mahratta _laonee_, and it said: ---
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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I undertook no part of the Persian; but, instead thereof, engaged in translating it into Maharastra, commonly called the Mahratta language, the person who assists me in the Hindostani being a Mahratta.
Life of William Carey George Smith 1876
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Ragoba, however, found means not only to pay his troops, but to buy off some of the chiefs of the hostile confederacy; and then he and his English allies marched upon Poona, which was a kind of Mahratta capital.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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This, however, was no unwonted mood of passion with Darsie Latimer, upon whom Cupid was used to triumph only in the degree of a Mahratta conqueror, who overruns a province with the rapidity of lightning, but finds it impossible to retain it beyond a very brief space.
Redgauntlet 2008
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Wellesley at the head of the 19th Dragoons charging the Mahratta
The Newcomes 2006
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Excellency, despising the Mahratta chieftain, had allowed him to advance about two thousand miles in his front, and knew not in the slightest degree where to lay hold on him.
Burlesques 2006
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In two hours several telegrams had reached the angry minister of a southern State reporting that all trace of a somewhat bruised Mahratta had been lost; and by the time the leisurely train halted at Saharunpore the last ripple of the stone Kim had helped to heave was lapping against the steps of a mosque in far-away Roum — where it disturbed a pious man at prayers.
Kim 2003
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At Bandakui, where lives one of Us, I thought to slip the scent by changing my face, and so made me a Mahratta.
Kim 2003
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From the South — God knows how far — came up the Mahratta, playing the Great Game in fear of his life.
Kim 2003
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‘And who is that?’ the Mahratta asked, glancing sideways nervously.
Kim 2003
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