Lexic.us

Definition of Janissary

1. Noun. A loyal supporter. "Every politician has a following of janissaries"

Definition of Janissary

1. n. See Janizary.

Definition of Janissary

1. Noun. An elite, highly loyal supporter. ¹

2. Noun. A soldier in a former elite Turkish guard. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Janissary

1. [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Janissary

Literary usage of Janissary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Residence at Constantinople: During a Period Including the Commencement by Robert Walsh (1836)
"Set out to visit Scio—janissary and Italian Servant—New aspect of ... We took with us a palace janissary, of the name of Achmet, a stout man with a certain ..."

2. Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia: A Study of Historical Biography by Eugene Schuyler (1884)
"Xo- A janissary thing terrifies them so much as your fleet. The rumour has circulated that seventy great ships have been built at Archangel, and they think ..."

3. Travels in Albania and Other Provinces of Turkey in 1809 & 1810 by John Cam Hobhouse Broughton (1858)
"... not, as before, in the channel of Tenedos, but at a little more than a mile and a half from Cape janissary, where we found HMS the Bustard brig of war, ..."

4. Damascus and Palmyra: A Journey to the East. With a Sketch of the State and by Charles Greenstreet Addison (1838)
"janissary ADA'S TOWER. —SCENERY. SLAVE MARKET.— GEORGIAN SLAVE. TURKISH LADIES' CARRIAGE. He went to mosque in state, and said his prayers With more than ..."

5. Narrative of a Journey to Guatemala, in Central America, in 1838 by George Washington Montgomery (1839)
"The American janissary.—Departure. IT was a delightful morning when we left the village of Apopa for St. Salvador. A serene and cloudless sky of deepest ..."

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