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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PHANARIOT; PHANARIOTE

Pha *nar "i *ot, n. Also Pha *nar "i *ote. [NGr. , fr. Phanar. See Phanar. ]

Defn: One of the Greeks of Constantinople who after the Turkish conquest became powerful in clerical and other offices under Turkish patronage.

New American Oxford Dictionary

Phanariot

Phanariot |fəˈnarɪət | ▶noun a Greek official in Constantinople under the Ottoman Empire. ORIGIN modern Greek phanariōtēs, from Phanar, chief Greek quarter of Istanbul, from Greek phanarion ‘lighthouse ’ (one being situated in this area ).

Oxford Dictionary

Phanariot

Phanariot |fəˈnarɪət | ▶noun a Greek official in Constantinople under the Ottoman Empire. ORIGIN modern Greek phanariōtēs, from Phanar, chief Greek quarter of Istanbul, from Greek phanarion ‘lighthouse ’ (one being situated in this area ).