Sheik

Quick meaning: Sheik is a noun meaning The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe.

Meaning

The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe.

More Meanings

1. An Islamic religious cleric; the master of a Sufi order.
2. (some Arab Gulf countries) An official title for members of the royal family as well as some prominent families.
3. An honorific for specialists in spirituality, for example in Sufism.
4. (slang, archaic) A romantic lover.
5. (slang) An Arab, especially one dressed in traditional clothing.

Example Sentences

He then studied under a variety of scholars (shuyook) and institutes around the world in his quest for authentic knowledge.

When your last natural tooth goes, the time when you can kid yourself that you're a Hollywood sheik, is definitely at an end.

Tarzan, who, by this time, with the assistance of Abdul, had picked up quite a smattering of Arab, questioned one of the younger men who had accompanied the sheik while the latter paid his respects to Captain Gerard.

Word Forms

• sheiks
• sheikh

Synonyms for sheik

Depending on context, synonyms include swell, dandy, dude, clotheshorse, sheikh, fop.

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