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sahibdom

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The condition of being a person of rank, especially a British person, in colonial India.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • 1978, Jan Morris (as James Morris), Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Chapter 23, p. 478, Many of the British, even now, failed to grasp their true relationship with India. The habit of sahibdom was too ingrained, the attitude of condescension, even mockery, still natural to them.

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History

Etymology

From sahib + -dom.