Sepoy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈsiːˌpɔɪ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sepoy is a noun meaning (India, Pakistan, Nepal) The holder of an infantry enlisted rank equivalent to private in other countries.
Meaning
(India, Pakistan, Nepal) The holder of an infantry enlisted rank equivalent to private in other countries.
More Meanings
- (historical, military) A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a European colonial power, notably the British India army (first under the British-chartered East India Company, later in the crown colony), but also France and Portugal.
Example Sentences
If our door were in the hands of the Sepoys the place must fall, and the women and children be treated as they were in Cawnpore.
They proved to be the wives of a body of sepoys, also from the 5th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry; the sepoys had perished, and their families been enslaved, when their pattamar had been captured by the Qawasim some months before.
Word Forms
- sepoys
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mutiny, seapoy, sebundy, subadar, bargir, peon.
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