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DRAGOMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government)
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Hypernyms ("dragoman" is a kind of...):
interpreter; translator (someone who mediates between speakers of different languages)
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