Usually means: Leaders or rulers in Islam.
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  1. sheiks: Merriam-Webster
  2. sheiks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sheiks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Sheik's, Sheiks, sheik's, sheiks: Wordnik
  5. sheiks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sheiks: Wiktionary
  7. sheiks: Dictionary.com
  8. sheiks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Sheiks: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. sheiks: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sheiks: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sheik)

noun:  The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe.
noun:  An Islamic religious cleric; the leader of an Islamic religious order.
noun:  (some Arab Gulf countries) An official title for members of the royal family as well as some prominent families.
noun:  (1920s) A romantic lover. (from the 1921 film The Sheik)
noun:  (slang) An Arab, especially one dressed in traditional clothing.
noun:  An honorific for specialists in spirituality, for example in Sufism.
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