nabobship

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The rank or condition of a nabob. historical
    — 1687, Records of Fort St. George, Diary and Consultation Book, Madras: 1916, entry for November 1687, p. 180, […] Potty Cawn was discharged from his Nabobship, and return’d to his Governmᵗ att Changalaput […]
  2. A position of extremely great wealth. archaic,figuratively
    — 1772, James Iredell, letter dated 20 July, 1772, cited in Don Higginbotham (ed.), The Papers of James Iredell, Raleigh, NC: Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, 1976, p. 109, […] an encumbered West India Estate, with the tax of high living, is no Nabobship, and an unfortunate Crop is a very severe shock to such a one.

词形变化

nabobships plural

词源

From nabob + -ship.
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