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Definition of Moonshee
1. n. A Mohammedan professor or teacher of language.
Definition of Moonshee
1. Noun. An Indian teacher of languages, especially Hindustani and Persian. ¹
2. Noun. A Muslim harkaras. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Moonshee
1. an Indian secretary [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moonshee
Literary usage of Moonshee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1894)
"A moonshee wishes for an interview," the messenger said. ... On enquiring into
his antecedents, I found that he had been a moonshee to one or two officers, ..."
2. Memoir of the Rev. Henry Martyn by John Sargent (1820)
"The moonshee shews remarkable contempt for the doctrine of the Trinity, shews
God to be weak (he says,) if he is obliged to have a fellow. ..."
3. The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years by Anna Harriette Leonowens (1873)
"... others with grotesque figures in bass-relief, taken from the mythology of the
Hindoos. Had these relics a charm for moonshee, and was he animated by the ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1869)
"In conversation with a moonshee—by name Mahomed Hussain (and who accom[allied
Piu.dit ... MEEK moonshee, CBI, of the Punjab Secretariat. ..."
5. A Memoir of the Rev. Henry Martyn by John Sargent (1844)
"... and his moonshee was at hand to suggest the proper idiom, and, what in that
language is so difficult, the just and exact collocation of the words in the ..."
6. Visits to High Tartary, Yârkand, and Kâshgar (formerly Chinese Tartary): And by Robert Shaw (1871)
"The moonshee and ... These foolish restrictions break up all family life, as the
moonshee confesses. ..."
7. Gunner Jingo's Jubilee by Thomas Bland Strange (1893)
"FORT moonshee GUNJ—POLITE ORDERS—QTH LANCERS—PERCY SMITH — AN UNSUCCESSFUL ...
It was hoped to carry the mud-fort of moonshee Gunj by a coup de main. ..."
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