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zamindar

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8 lettersPronunciation /zəˈmiːndɑː/Sorted aadimnrzStarts with ZEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. An Indian landowner who collected local taxes and paid them to the British government.

Word origin

Borrowed from Urdu زمیندار (zamīndār, “landlord”), from Persian زمیندار.

Used in a sentence

  • An Oxford avatar of the old zamindar mentality―a landlord forcing his attentions on women who depended on him for their livelihood.
  • Indian princes, zamindars and industrialists engaged him as their counsel and paid him whatever he asked for as fees.
  • Thus it happened that the approach of the Ibis was witnessed by Raja Neel Rattan Halder, the zemindar of Raskhali, who was on board the palatial barge with his eight-year-old son and a sizeable retune of attendants.

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