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Word entry · 5 letters

sheik

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"Arab leader"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ʃeɪk/Part of speech nounSorted ehiksStarts with SEnds with K1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance

Word origin

From Arabic شَيْخ (šayḵ, “elder”). Sense 4 (“a romantic lover”) is from the 1921 film The Sheik.

Used in a sentence

  • Tarzan, who, by this time, with the assistance of Abdul, had picked up quite a smattering of Arab, questioned one of the younger men who had accompanied the sheik while the latter paid his respects to Captain Gerard.
  • He then studied under a variety of scholars (shuyook) and institutes around the world in his quest for authentic knowledge.
  • When your last natural tooth goes, the time when you can kid yourself that you're a Hollywood sheik, is definitely at an end.

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