Hypertext Webster Gateway: "vizier"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vizier \Viz"ier\, n. [Ar. wez[=i]r, waz[=i]r, properly, a bearer
of burdens, a porter, from wazara to bear a burden: cf. F.
vizir, visir. Cf. {Alguazil}.]
A councilor of state; a high executive officer in Turkey and
other Oriental countries. [Written also {visier}, {vizir},
and {vizer}.]
{Grand vizier}, the chief minister of the Turkish empire; --
called also {vizier-azem}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
vizier
n : a high official in a Moslem government (especially in the
Ottoman Empire)
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