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- noun Alternative spelling of
maharaja .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja
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Examples
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The title maharajah, meaning "great king," had been claimed by the Dali kings.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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Mussulmans among them, though the maharajah is a Hindoo.
Mr. Isaacs 1881
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The krewe's royalty is referred to as the maharajah and the maharanee.
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Kashmir was an independent princely state under the British Raj ruled by a Hindu maharajah.
Eric Margolis: Kashmir Could Start a Nuclear War Eric Margolis 2010
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Kashmir was an independent princely state under the British Raj ruled by a Hindu maharajah.
Eric Margolis: Kashmir Could Start a Nuclear War Eric Margolis 2010
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"I call him the maharajah of Washington power dining," says Lyndon Boozer, a telecommunications lobbyist whose mother was President Lyndon B.
Restaurateur Ashok Bajaj: Potentate of the D.C. plate Manuel Roig-Franzia 2011
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The 100-seat elegant dining room of Junoon seems fit for the maharajah.
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Kashmir was an independent princely state under the British Raj ruled by a Hindu maharajah.
Eric Margolis: Kashmir Could Start a Nuclear War Eric Margolis 2010
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Kashmir was an independent princely state under the British Raj ruled by a Hindu maharajah.
Eric Margolis: Kashmir Could Start a Nuclear War Eric Margolis 2010
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And will the major ever succeed in reuniting a pair of Churchill shooters given to his father by a maharajah and divided between his sons at his death?
Reader reviews of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson. 2010
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