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RAJAH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rajah mean?
• RAJAH (noun)
The noun RAJAH has 1 sense:
1. a prince or king in India
Familiarity information: RAJAH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A prince or king in India
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
raja; rajah
Hypernyms ("rajah" is a kind of...):
aristocrat; blue blood; patrician (a member of the aristocracy)
Context examples
After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe—Paris, Venice, Rome—collecting jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something very sad that had happened to me long ago.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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