"woordie major" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en"
      },
      "expansion": "Uncertain",
      "name": "unc"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Uncertain. Yule states: \"Both the rationale of the compound title, and the etymology of wardī, are obscure. Platts gives Hind. wardī or urdī, 'uniform of a soldier, badge or dress of office,' as the first part of the compound, with a questionable Skt. etymology, viruda, 'crying, proclaiming, a panegyric.' But there is also Ar. wird, 'a flight of birds,' and then also 'a troop or squadron,' which is perhaps as probable. Others, again, as many military titles have come from S. India, connect it with Can. varadi, 'news, an order.'\"",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "woordie majors",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "woordie major"
      },
      "expansion": "woordie major (plural woordie majors)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Indian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A native adjutant in regiments of Indian irregular cavalry."
      ],
      "id": "en-woordie_major-en-noun-WXqXzeVc",
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "native",
          "native"
        ],
        [
          "adjutant",
          "adjutant"
        ],
        [
          "regiment",
          "regiment"
        ],
        [
          "Indian",
          "Indian"
        ],
        [
          "irregular",
          "irregular"
        ],
        [
          "cavalry",
          "cavalry"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India, military, obsolete) A native adjutant in regiments of Indian irregular cavalry."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "wurdee major"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "woordie major"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en"
      },
      "expansion": "Uncertain",
      "name": "unc"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Uncertain. Yule states: \"Both the rationale of the compound title, and the etymology of wardī, are obscure. Platts gives Hind. wardī or urdī, 'uniform of a soldier, badge or dress of office,' as the first part of the compound, with a questionable Skt. etymology, viruda, 'crying, proclaiming, a panegyric.' But there is also Ar. wird, 'a flight of birds,' and then also 'a troop or squadron,' which is perhaps as probable. Others, again, as many military titles have come from S. India, connect it with Can. varadi, 'news, an order.'\"",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "woordie majors",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "woordie major"
      },
      "expansion": "woordie major (plural woordie majors)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with unknown etymologies",
        "Indian English",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A native adjutant in regiments of Indian irregular cavalry."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "native",
          "native"
        ],
        [
          "adjutant",
          "adjutant"
        ],
        [
          "regiment",
          "regiment"
        ],
        [
          "Indian",
          "Indian"
        ],
        [
          "irregular",
          "irregular"
        ],
        [
          "cavalry",
          "cavalry"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India, military, obsolete) A native adjutant in regiments of Indian irregular cavalry."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "wurdee major"
    }
  ],
  "word": "woordie major"
}