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bashaws

bashaws is the plural of bashaw.

Meaning of bashaw

Noun

bashaw (plural bashaws)

  1. (archaic, historical) A pasha.
    • Radzivilius was much taken with the bassa’s palace in Cairo […].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
  2. (archaic, broadly, derogatory, often) A grandee.
  3. A very large siluroid fish (Pylodictis olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; the goujon or mudcat.

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Proper noun capitalized: Bashaws

Bashaws

  1. (plural) plural of Bashaw

Questions about bashaws

What is bashaws the plural of?
Bashaws is the plural of bashaw.
What part of speech is bashaws?
Bashaws is a proper noun.

Words near bashaws in the dictionary

  1. Bashandy
  2. Bashar
  3. bashas
  4. bashaw
  5. bashawism
  6. bashaws
  7. bashawship
  8. bashed
  9. bashed about
  10. bashed and grabbed
  11. bashed in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bashaws (page history and authors); Bashaws (page history and authors); bashaw (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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