vizier
7
9.9
- noun
- /vɪˈzɪr/
:
visir
- The vizier stood beside the Sultan, advising him on matters of statecraft.
- the grand vizier
I renounce my station as holy tutor, Tutor as vizier to the court of the Anasurimber Kelhus.
- I renounce my station as holy tutor, Tutor as vizier to the court of the Anasurimber Kelhus.
Examples
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Upon hearing this, Scheherazade, daughter of Giafar, the Sultan's grand vizier, decides that she will be the one to marry the Sultan.
Fiction book (2000) -
This is my royal vizier, Jafar.
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I am I, the Grand Vizier.
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Make way, make way for the Grand Vizier.
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Always nice to see my Grand Vizier promptly answering my call.
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I think it was under his instructions, as vizier of Egypt, that that canal was cut.
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The Grand Vizier Mustafa Pasha led the attack.
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His lordship, the exalted Grand Vizier of Baghdad.
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Abu Ubaydallah was a competent and upright vizier, and nothing could be found to impugn his character.
Academic text (1994) -
Political theory was not entirely divorced from actuality: the grand vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha was indeed of central importance to the running of the state.
Academic text (2013)
How High-Ranking
- Formal
49
3.5
216
2.3
7
9.9
- UK
862
3.0
- US
271
2.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
Vizier comes from Arabic wazir, which means 'helper' or 'one who carries a burden'. In old courts a vizier was the ruler's chief helper and adviser, so today the word means a high minister or adviser to a king or sultan.