Ayatollah (original) (raw)

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as wellplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ayatollah" is a kind of...):

religious leader (leader of a religious order)

Domain region:

Iran; Islamic Republic of Iran; Persia (a theocratic Islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia; Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil)

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