Definition of nabob:

part of speech: noun

An Indian governor; man of great wealth.

Usage examples :

• They had a small boat drawn up by them on the ice, and one man was dressed in magnificent furs, a long sable overcoat and cap, and wearing quite the air of a North Pole Nabob "The Magnetic North", - Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)

• The contrast had not been wholly to the advantage of the nabob though, to be sure, he was simply arrayed- as if, indeed, he were not worth a thousand a year. "The Judgment House", - Gilbert Parker

• I tell the Nabob so. "The Virginians", - William Makepeace Thackeray