Advertisement - Continue reading below

Definition of "archonship" [ar•chon•ship]

  • The rank or office of an archon. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

Use "archonship" in a sentence
  • "'Pisistratus the son of Hippias dedicated this memorial of his archonship in the sacred precinct of the Pythian Apollo.'"
  • "Among others who thus held the annual archonship at"
  • "Sparta, and at Athens Pythodorus having two months of his archonship to run,1 in the sixth month after the engagement at Potidaea and at the beginning of spring, about the first watch of the night an armed force of somewhat more than three hundred Thebans entered Plataea, a city of"