"purvoe" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: purvoes [plural]
Etymology: Related to Prabhu. Head templates: {{en-noun}} purvoe (plural purvoes)
  1. (India, obsolete) A Hindu clerk. Tags: India, obsolete Categories (topical): Occupations Synonyms: parvoe, purvo
    Sense id: en-purvoe-en-noun-MYAWrDFX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Indian English, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "etymology_text": "Related to Prabhu.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "purvoes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "name": "Indian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Occupations",
          "orig": "en:Occupations",
          "parents": [
            "People",
            "Work",
            "Human",
            "Human activity",
            "All topics",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1843, Transactions of the Agri-horticultural Society of Western India, page 2:",
          "text": "[…] not one-third of the work was done under the direction of the Garden Purvoe and Head Malley only, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1845, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, The Hand-book of India, page 219:",
          "text": "[…] and there would be various objections to trusting a native with the purport of such communications, even where some of the baboos, sircars, purvoes, and others of that genus, can converse with sufficient comprehensiveness in English […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Hindu clerk."
      ],
      "id": "en-purvoe-en-noun-MYAWrDFX",
      "links": [
        [
          "Hindu",
          "Hindu"
        ],
        [
          "clerk",
          "clerk"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India, obsolete) A Hindu clerk."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "parvoe"
        },
        {
          "word": "purvo"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "purvoe"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Related to Prabhu.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "purvoes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "purvoe (plural purvoes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Indian English",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Occupations"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1843, Transactions of the Agri-horticultural Society of Western India, page 2:",
          "text": "[…] not one-third of the work was done under the direction of the Garden Purvoe and Head Malley only, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1845, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, The Hand-book of India, page 219:",
          "text": "[…] and there would be various objections to trusting a native with the purport of such communications, even where some of the baboos, sircars, purvoes, and others of that genus, can converse with sufficient comprehensiveness in English […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "A Hindu clerk."
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        "(India, obsolete) A Hindu clerk."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "parvoe"
    },
    {
      "word": "purvo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "purvoe"
}

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