Premiership

name, noun

name, noun ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The office of a premier or prime minister.

    "There is a familiar pattern that has come to define Theresa May’s premiership. Encouraging rhetoric gets periodically wheeled out: the pledges to ease the burden on the “just about managing”; the promises to fight the “burning injustices” of social inequality. But then a few weeks later, the chancellor gets up at the dispatch box to deliver a budget or an autumn statement and it’s as if those words had never been uttered."

  2. 2
    the office of premier wordnet
  3. 3
    The position held by the champion team at the end of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football). Australia
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Premier League of English association football. British
  2. 2
    Premiership Rugby, the top division of English rugby union. British

Example

More examples

"His urbanity gained him the premiership."

Etymology

From premier + -ship.

Related phrases

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