Hated by the archons of Athens for his fearless condemnation of municipal graft, he was hypocritically arraigned on a charge of corrupting Athenian youth.
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Archon
//ˈɑː(ɹ)kən//
Synonyms for "archon" (36 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (10)
Related words (18)
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Translations
23 translations across 19 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἄρχων noun (chief magistrate)
Arabic
1 entries- أَرْخُن noun (chief magistrate)
Bulgarian
1 entries- архонт noun (chief magistrate)
Catalan
1 entries- arcont noun (chief magistrate)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 執政官 /执政官 noun (chief magistrate)
Coptic
1 entries- ⲁⲣⲭⲱⲛ noun (chief magistrate)
Esperanto
2 entries- arkonto noun (chief magistrate)
- arĥonto noun (chief magistrate)
Finnish
1 entries- arkontti noun (chief magistrate)
French
1 entries- archonte noun (chief magistrate)
German
2 entries- Archon noun (chief magistrate)
- Archont noun (chief magistrate)
Greek
2 entries- άρχοντας noun (chief magistrate)
- αρχόντισσα noun (chief magistrate)
Italian
1 entries- arconte noun (chief magistrate)
Lithuanian
1 entries- archontas noun (chief magistrate)
Norwegian
1 entries- arkont noun (chief magistrate)
Persian
2 entries- ارخون noun (chief magistrate)
- ارکنت noun (chief magistrate)
Polish
1 entries- archont noun (chief magistrate)
Portuguese
1 entries- arconte noun (chief magistrate)
Russian
1 entries- архо́нт noun (chief magistrate)
Spanish
1 entries- arconte noun (chief magistrate)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
But neither the midwife’s lore nor the caudlectures saved him from the archons of Sinn Fein and their noggin of hemlock.
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Their claim to totality is like the cry of the archon Ialdabaoth that he was the Lord of the Universe and that there was nothing beyond him.
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