Usually means: Nobleman in Mughal Empire India.
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  1. nawab: Merriam-Webster
  2. nawab: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nawab: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nawab: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nawab: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nawab, nawab: Wordnik
  7. nawab: Wiktionary
  8. nawab: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. nawab: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. nawab: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Nawab, nawab: Dictionary.com
  12. Nawab: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Nawab: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. nawab: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. nawab: Rhymezone
  16. Nawab: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. nawab: FreeDictionary.org
  18. nawab: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. nawab: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

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  1. nawab: Encyclopedia

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  1. nawab: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (historical) A Muslim official in South Asia acting as a provincial deputy ruler under the Mughal empire; a local governor.
noun:  Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polyura (possibly a subgenus of genus Charaxes).

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