seignior

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Recent Examples of seignior Terence had really identified very much with being the grand seignior. Clark Collis, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seignior
Noun
  • Gianfranco was every inch the grand seigneur but without the pretense.
    John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The Patriots have lost five of six to Bills uber-QB Josh Allen, the reigning signal-caller seigneur of the AFC East.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • Guy Montag burned libraries in Fahrenheit 451, and Don Quixote’s priest and barber burned the romances that turned the hidalgo mad.
    Justin Beal, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2021
Noun
  • The three-course lunch menu is exceptional value at €58 ($68), featuring locavore produce like delicate omble chevalier (Arctic char) line-fished in the deep icy waters of Lake Annecy, or a simple onion, cooked with a sweet almond cream, quince, and rosemary oil.
    John Brunton, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Available in 9-karat and 18-karat yellow and white gold, the pendant and chevalier ring come with a cast kit to take the pet’s nose print, which is then reproduced on the jewels by the brand’s goldsmiths.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The lights dim, and a hush falls over the crowd, as the last nawab of Oudh strides onto the stage at Palo Alto’s Cubberley Theater.
    Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The Oudh descendants in Kolkata, where the nawab died in exile, had also rejected their claim.
    Ellen Barry, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2019
Noun
  • When a boy turns sixteen, he is assigned a sheikh from his hometown and studies with him in a local prayer room at the shrine every weekend.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The sheikh had studied religious law at Damascus University and earned a master’s degree in Lebanon; the Tunisian had not completed a day’s worth of religious study in his life, relying instead on YouTube videos and stray sermons.
    Anand Gopal, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • But all the nattering nabobs of negativism who’d normally have been concentrating on Maura’s catastrophic first term had to devote at least a little attention to recounting one of the Wu Klux Klan’s more embarrassing moments of 2025.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Back then, white scholars saw history through the eyes of society’s nabobs, kings and presidents.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025

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“Seignior.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seignior. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.

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