Synonyms:
nabob
Meaning: a wealthy man (especially one who made his fortune in the Orient)
Synonyms:
nawab, nabob
Meaning: a governor in India during the Mogul empire
Usage examples
NABOB.
It was evident he remembered meeting Mr. Merrick, for he smiled and returned the "nabob's" nod.
Although the agent had been late in starting from Millville and Nick Thorne's sorrel mare had walked every step of the way, Peggy was obliged to wait in the yard a good half hour for the "nabob" to finish his breakfast.
Millville waited in agonized suspense for three days for tangible evidence that "the nabob was in their midst," as Nib Corkins poetically expressed it; but the city folks seemed glued to the farm and no one of them had yet appeared in the village.