Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Phanariot \Pha*nar"i*ot\, n. Also Phanariote \Pha*nar"i*ote\
   [NGr. ?, fr. Phanar. See {Phanar}.]
   One of the Greeks of Constantinople who after the Turkish
   conquest became powerful in clerical and other offices under
   Turkish patronage.