SHEIK meaning: Islamic leader or Arab chief

We found 30 dictionaries that define the word sheik:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

sheik: Merriam-Webster
sheik: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
sheik: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
sheik: Collins English Dictionary
sheik: Vocabulary.com
Sheik, sheik: Wordnik
sheik: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
sheik: Wiktionary
sheik: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
sheik (sheikh): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
sheik: Infoplease Dictionary
sheik: Dictionary.com
sheik: Online Etymology Dictionary
sheik: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Sheik (Legend of Zelda), Sheik (Zelda), Sheik (disambiguation), Sheik, The Sheik (film), The Sheik (novel), The Sheik (wrestler), The Sheik: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Sheik: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
sheik: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
sheik: Rhymezone
Sheik: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
sheik: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Sheik: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
sheik: FreeDictionary.org
sheik: Mnemonic Dictionary
sheik, sheik(h): TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

sheik: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

sheik, sheik, sheik: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
sheik: Urban Dictionary
The Sheik: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe.
▸ noun:  An Islamic religious cleric; the leader of an Islamic religious order.
▸ noun:  (some Arab Gulf countries) An official title for members of the royal family as well as some prominent families.
▸ noun:  (1920s) A romantic lover. (from the 1921 film The Sheik)
▸ noun:  (slang) An Arab, especially one dressed in traditional clothing.
▸ noun:  An honorific for specialists in spirituality, for example in Sufism.

Similar:

Sheikh, dude, fashion plate, dandy, fop, beau, clotheshorse, gallant, swell, arab chief, more...

Opposite:

sheikha, princess, queen

Types:

ayatollah, emir, khan, sultan, caliph, imam, more...

Phrases:

tribal sheik, The Iron Sheik, Duncan Sheik, Sheik Yerbouti, Sammy Sheik, more...

Adjectives:

arab, old, young, great, arabian, good, local, bedouin, black, powerful, tribal

Colors:

desert sand, camel, gold, midnight blue, turquoise, more...