Their small town had a reeve instead of a mayor.
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Reeve
//ɹiːv//
Synonyms for "reeve" (85 found)
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12 translations across 6 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- управител noun (Translations)
Dutch
1 entries- graaf noun (Translations)
Finnish
1 entries- vouti noun (Translations)
German
1 entries- Graf noun (Translations)
Hungarian
4 entries- elöljáró noun (Translations)
- felügyelő noun (Translations)
- helytartó noun (Translations)
- ispán noun (Translations)
Latin
2 entries- praepositus noun (Translations)
- praepositus villae noun (Translations)
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In Grade 7, on one snowy winter day on Lulu Island, my friend Tom, who hailed from Taiwan, and I were building, on the school's baseball field, a snow city, modelled after the buildings on planet Krypton in the popular movie Superman with Christopher Reeve and Marlon Brando. Tom disappeared from this world later in high school.
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His first convert was the reeve of the city of Lincoln called Blæcca, ...
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A list of new titles was manufactured as follows: Ensign, Lieutenant, Flight-Leader, Squadron-Leader, Reeve, Banneret, Fourth-Ardian, Third-Ardian, Second-Ardian, Ardian, Air Marshal. […] “Reeve”, perhaps, savoured a little too much of legal authority.
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