Usually means: Ottoman elite infantry, Christian conscripts.
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  1. janizary: Merriam-Webster
  2. janizary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. janizary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. janizary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. janizary: Wordnik
  6. janizary: Wiktionary
  7. janizary (janissary): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. Janizary, janizary: Dictionary.com
  9. janizary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Janizary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Janizary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. janizary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Janizary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. janizary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. janizary: FreeDictionary.org
  16. janizary: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. janizary: TheFreeDictionary.com

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noun:  Alternative spelling of janissary. [(historical) An infantry soldier, often of European Christian background from the Balkans as well as Eastern Europe and forcibly converted to Islam, in a former elite Turkish (Ottoman) guard (disbanded in 1826).]

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