Zamindar

Zam`in*dar"

(?), n. [Hind. zemndr, zamndr, a landholder, Per. zamndr; zamn land dr holding.] A landowner; also, a collector of land revenue; now, usually, a kind of feudatory recognized as an actual proprietor so long as he pays to the government a certain fixed revenue.
[Written also zemindar.]
[India]
[1913 Webster]

{

Zam"in*da*ry

(?),

Zam"in*da*ri

(?) }, n. The jurisdiction of a zamindar; the land possessed by a zamindar.
[Written also zemindary, zemindari.]

[1913 Webster]

 

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