Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Phanariot

Phanariot (fȧ*nar"i*ot) , noun

[NGr. Fanariw`ths, from Phanar. See Phanar.]

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

Also: Phanariote