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单词 nabob
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nabobn.

Brit. /ˈneɪbɒb/, U.S. /ˈneɪˌbɑb/
Forms: 1600s nahab (transmission error), 1600s nawbob, 1600s nobob, 1600s nobobb, 1600s 1800s nabab, 1600s– nabob, 1600s– nobab, 1800s nebob. In sense 1 frequently with capital initial.
Origin: A borrowing from Urdu. Etymon: Urdu nawwāb.
Etymology: < Urdu nawwāb, nawāb (see nawab n.). Compare Portuguese nababo (1600), and ( < Portuguese) French nabab (1653; attested earlier as nauabo (1614)), Spanish nabab (1884). Compare also naib n.H. Yule and A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson (1886) at cited word indicate stress as falling on the second syllable; this is given as an alternative pronunciation also in early editions of D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict.
1.
a. = nawab n. 1. Now historical.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > governors by country > [noun] > in India
nabob1612
naib1625
subedar1681
nawab1682
subah1753
rajpramukh1948
1612 R. Coverte True Rep. Englishman 36 An Earle is called a Nawbob, and they [sc. noblemen] are the chiefe men that attend on him.
c1613 N. Downton in S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. 504 The Nabob bestowed on him..30 allizaes.
1625 W. Finch in S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iv. 467 The Nabob, with fiftie or sixtie thousand people in his campe.
1687 London Gaz. No. 2270/6 They took after that a great Ship belonging to the Nabob of Decca, in the River's mouth.
1741 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 168 Now for curling, tiffing, etc. ..Our Duchess will be almost as fine as the nabob's lady.
1764 C. Churchill Candidate 22 Nabobs themselves, allur'd by thy renown, Shall pay due homage to the English Crown.
1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. IV. 375 The nabob whom the English supported, was reinstated in the government.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. iii. iv. 621 (note) The term Nabob, as equivalent to Subahdar, is very modern in Hindustan; and is said to have begun with Sujah Dowlah.
1858 J. B. Norton Topics for Indian Statesmen 34 The proclamation of Khan Bahadoor Khan.., who set himself up as nabob of that place, was put in evidence.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People x. §2. 759 The Nabob sank into a pensionary.
1901 Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. III. 348/1 On 21 April 1753 he was detached with forty Europeans and two hundred sipáhis from Arcot to act with the Nabob's forces against the French.
1968 F. Richards Billy Bunter & Bank Robber xx. 72 ‘The enoughfulness is terrific, my esteemed fat Bunter’, said the Nabob of Shanipur.
1991 C. Willock Kingdoms of East ii. 44/1 Tiger shooting became an obsession with the maharajas and nabobs who quickly passed the mania on to the British officials and army officers.
b. In extended use: a wealthy, influential, or powerful landowner or other person, esp. one with an extravagantly luxurious lifestyle; spec. (now historical) a British person who acquired a large fortune in India during the period of British rule. Also: any wealthy or high-ranking foreigner (rare).
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the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > rich or wealthy person
rich manOE
richOE
Divesc1386
richlingc1445
stuffed manc1460
cob1548
wealthling1581
tercel-gentle1597
good liver1602
goldfinch1603
fill-sack1641
dorado1643
wealth-monger1654
a man, etc. of fortune1732
nabob1760
nawab1826
rico1844
abounder1876
high roller1876
fat cat1928
richie1954
wealth-holder1957
jet-setter1959
1760 S. Foote Minor ii. 71 My wife, a dear good woman, fine in figure, high in taste, a superior genius, and knows old china like a Nabob.
a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) ii. 38 But, after all, Master Touchit, I am not so over-fond of these Nabobs.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. 54 The customs and manner of living of these West-India nabobs.
1800 M. Edgeworth Castle Rackrent 40 I..passed her for a Nabob, in the kitchen, which accounted for her dark complexion, and every thing.
1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 35 Lady Cork..took us to dine at Sir George Cockerell's, the richest nabob in London.
1830 T. B. Macaulay Southey's Colloq. in Ess. (1851) I. 103 The glorified spirit of a great statesman and philosopher dawdling, like a bilious old nabob at a watering place.
1869 Echo 6 Feb. 1/1 India may have ceased to grow nabobs as yellow as the gold mohurs they were wont to amass.
1891 S. M. Welch Home Hist. 157 This southern travel mostly consisted of the sugar ‘Nabobs’ of Louisiana and rich planters from the ‘Cotton States’.
1927 E. Lewis Trader Horn (1930) i. xvi. 184 Sent 'em over for quite a long time to Horniman. One of the tea nabobs.
1950 Times 13 Feb. 3/5 The amateur village bands numbered among their members such ‘new criminals’ as small shopkeepers, village ‘nabobs’ (farmers with from 30 to 125 acres), and other unorganized individuals.
1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) vi. 153 The suggestion was that in Aden everyone could be a nabob, or at least a nob.
2. U.S. A type of woman's cloak fashionable in the early 19th cent. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > cloak, mantle, or cape > types of > other
cowlc961
rocheta1325
dud1355
paenulaa1400
jornay1495
jornet1502
glaudkin1518
paludament1543
mantoon1623
mantoplicee1672
bavaroy1713
roquelaure1716
poncho1717
manteel1733
pelerine1744
mat1773
wrap-rascal1796
benish1797
nabob1803
scarf cloak1804
ruana1814
witzchoura1823
all-rounder1837
pardessus1843
visitec1847
tilma1851
talma1852
sontag1859
Inverness cape1865
dolman1872
Niçois1873
Mother Hubbard1877
1803 E. S. Bowne Let. 4 June in Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago (1888) 151 Silk nabobs, plaided, colored and white, are much worn, very short waists, hair very plain.
1804 T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems 23 Misses, squires, and gentlefolks, Call for Nabobs, hats, and cloaks. Note. Nabobs were a kind of outside garment formerly worne by the dashing belles of America.
1854 Godey's Lady's Bk. Feb. 190 The endless varieties of cloaks..the Hungarian, the Galeta, the Nabob..are still in season.

Compounds

C1.
nabob fortune n. Obsolete rare
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1795 R. Burns Fy, Let us a' to K—— As to his fine nabob fortune, We'el e'en let this subject alane.
nabob-hunting n. Obsolete
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1767 W. Kenrick Widow'd Wife iii. ii. 43 I was..detained by the conversation of a gentleman, who has been these twelve years a Nabob-hunting in Bengal.
1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 91 This project may not be quite so noble as that of Nabob-hunting, but is certainly more commercial.
nabob-maker n. Obsolete rare
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1862 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India I. iii. xii. 682 On these presents the nabob-makers of Calcutta were far more intent than on the interests of their employers.
nabob merchant n. Obsolete rare
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1861 All Year Round 9 Mar. 521/2 Nabob merchants who were wont to settle their mutual balances by the barrow-load of Spanish gold.
nabob plunderer n. Obsolete rare
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1775 T. Mortimer Every Man his own Broker 14 (note) As to the nabob plunderers, these build palaces.
C2.
Nabob-land n. depreciative Obsolete India.
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1764 H. Walpole Lett. (1891) IV. 180 There is the devil to pay in Nabob-land, but I understand Indian histories no better than stocks.
1782 J. Trumbull MʽFingal (new ed.) iv. 84 'Tis the blackhole of Indian structure, New-built with English architecture, On plan, 'tis said, contrived and wrote, By Clive..Who..Was her Highpriest in Nabob-land.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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