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pandour

/ˈpændʊə(ɹ)/

pandour noun: one of a class of Croatian skirmishers serving in the Austrian army.

Noun

pandour (plural pandours)

  1. One of a class of Croatian skirmishers serving in the Austrian army.
    • her whisker'd pandours and her fierce hussars1799, Thomas Campbell, Pleasure of Hope
  2. (obsolete) A robber.

pandour meaning in Tamil

pandour in Tamil

கொள்ளைக்காரன்

Forms of pandour

pluralpandours
alternative formpandur
alternative formpandoor

Origin of pandour

From Serbo-Croatian pandur, from Medieval Latin banderius, a follower of a banner.

Questions about pandour

What does pandour mean?
Pandour means one of a class of Croatian skirmishers serving in the Austrian army.
What is pandour in Tamil?
Pandour in Tamil is கொள்ளைக்காரன். See Pandour meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pandour?
Pandour is a noun.
How do you pronounce pandour?
Pandour is pronounced /ˈpændʊə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of pandour?
The plural of pandour is pandours.

Words near pandour in the dictionary

  1. pandorid
  2. pandorids
  3. pandoro
  4. pandoros
  5. Pandos
  6. pandour
  7. pandoura
  8. pandouras
  9. pandours
  10. pandowdies
  11. pandowdy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pandour (page history and authors); pandour (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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