maharaja

plural maharajas · alternative maharajah · alternative maharana · alternative maharanah

1. A Hindu monarch ranking above a raja, an emperor.

   Benny: Hey, T.C., what's a maharaja? Top Cat: What's a what? Benny: A maharaja. Top Cat: Oh, do I look like Daniel Webster? I didn't write no dictionary.

   1961 October 4, “The Maharajah of Pookajee” (2:33 from the start), in Top Cat, season 1, episode 2

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   I speak from a very intimate knowledge of their ways and habits after having spent a very happy twenty years amongst them with friends in every degree, from the Maharaja himself to some of the humblest coolies.

   1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, pages 7–8