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Webster 1913 Edition
Zamindar
Zamˊin-dar′
,Noun.
[Hind.
zemīndār
, zamīndār
, a landholder, Per. zamīndār
; zamīn
land dār
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]