Augurship

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The office (or period of office) of an augur in ancient Rome. historical

    "1880, Anthony Trollope, Life of Cicero, 2004, Kessinger Publishing, page 5, The augurship would have bought him. “So pitiful,” says the biographer, “was the bribe to which he would have sacrificed his honor, his opinions, and the commonwealth!”"

Example

More examples

"1880, Anthony Trollope, Life of Cicero, 2004, Kessinger Publishing, page 5, The augurship would have bought him. “So pitiful,” says the biographer, “was the bribe to which he would have sacrificed his honor, his opinions, and the commonwealth!”"

Etymology

From augur + -ship.

More for "augurship"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.