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/sˈæhɪb/
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NOUN
- formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India; used after the name
How To Use sahib In A Sentence
- With Maugham it is a kind of stoical resignation, the stiff upper lip of the pukka sahib somewhere east of Suez, carrying on with his job without believing in it, like an Antonine Emperor. Inside the Whale
- * (* Teacher.) "The sahibs love their soldiers - and so the gora-cavalry broke Lal's string for him tonight! Fiancée
- Now the woman's voice came to them calling earnestly, "Sahib, sahib, sahib!" she cried. Jack Haydon's Quest
- 'Behold the memsahib has ordered but one tonga, and a fool-thing of an ekka. The Pool in the Desert
- Heat-jaded Sahibs and Memsahibs came here to escape the coast's hottest months, they invented snooker at the pukka Ooty Club and came to gossip at Charing Cross - locations were named by the British.
- ‘Aye Banta Singh, come here and pump up the cycle of the chota sahib,’ he commanded.
- No, Sahib; no _khidmutgar_ waits on more than one gentleman," replied Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East
- If we tune our minds and hearts to the nectarous melodies of Gurbani with a live faith in Sri Guru Granth Sahib, we are saved.
- Geb and Sahib stuttered in fright and pointed behind her.
- The authors of the verses of the Guru Grantha Sahib are not only the Sikh gurus, but also Hindu poet-saints.