Usually means: Guided one in Islamic eschatology.
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  1. mahdi: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Mahdi: Merriam-Webster
  3. Mahdi: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Mahdi: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Mahdi: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Mahdi: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mahdi, mahdi: Wordnik
  8. Mahdi: Wiktionary
  9. Mahdi: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Mahdi: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Mahdi, mahdi, the mahdi: Dictionary.com
  12. mahdi: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Mahdi (Dune), Mahdi (disambiguation), Mahdi (malware), Mahdi, The Mahdi: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Mahdi: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. mahdi: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Mahdi: Rhymezone
  17. Mahdi: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. mahdi: FreeDictionary.org
  19. mahdi: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Mahdi: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Mahdi: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. Mahdi: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Mahdi: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mahdi: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mahdism as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Mahdi)

noun:  (Sunni Islam) A leader who, according to Sunni eschatology, will appear and restore peace and justice before the end of the world.
noun:  (Twelver Shiite Islam) Muhammad b. Hasan al-Mahdi, the last of the Twelve Imams, born in 868 AD but believed alive and present in this world in a state of occultation; Similarly to Sunni belief, he will reappear before the end of time.

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