Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the army of India, a native officer next in rank to a subadar, or captain of a, company of Sepoys; a lieutenant: the name is also applied, in the civil service, to certain officers of police, of the customs, etc., and, in large domestic establishments, to an overseer or head servant having general control of the others.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The chief or leader of a band or body of persons; esp., in the native army of India, an officer of a rank corresponding to that of lieutenant in the English army.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
jemadar .
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Examples
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` ` A jemidar told me that when he was a lad he remembered going, with others, to see a wolf-child which had been netted.
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I then walked the rounds with my jemidar, and having seen that all was right I turned in a little before eleven.
The Mystery of Cloomber Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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A jemidar of ours brought in a Hillman today, who says that the tribes are massing in the Terada ravine, ten miles to the north of us, and intend attacking the next convoy.
The Mystery of Cloomber Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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The jemidar has been very civil to me, and gives me two guides to go on to Adonde, but no carriers can be hired.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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We had left many things with the jemidar from an idea that no carriers could be procured.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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An agent of the Zanzibar custom-house presides over the customs, which are very small, and a jemidar acknowledging the Sultan is the chief authority; but the people are little superior to the natives whom they have displaced.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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The jemidar has been very civil to me, and gives me two guides to go on to Adondé, but no carriers can be hired.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 David Livingstone 1843
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An agent of the Zanzibar custom-house presides over the customs, which are very small, and a jemidar acknowledging the Sultan is the chief authority; but the people are little superior to the natives whom they have displaced.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 David Livingstone 1843
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We had left many things with the jemidar from an idea that no carriers could be procured.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 David Livingstone 1843
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"A jemidar told me that when he was a lad he remembered going, with others, to see a wolf-child which had been netted.
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