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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a former Turkish term of respect; especially for government officials;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Effendi \Ef*fen"di\, n., [Turk. efendi, fr. Modern Gr. ?, fr. Gr. ? a chief. See Authentic.] Master; sir; -- a Turkish title of respect, applied esp. to a state official or man of learning, as one learned in the law, but often simply as the courtesy title of a gentleman. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

effendi n 1: a former Turkish term of respect; especially for government officials