Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ayatollah_ruholla_khomeini

1 sense of ayatollah ruholla khomeini

Sense 1
Khomeini, Ruholla Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini -- (Iranian religious leader of the Shiites; when Shah Pahlavi's regime fell Khomeini established a new constitution giving himself supreme powers (1900-1989))
       INSTANCE OF=> religious leader -- (leader of a religious order)