Noun: satrapy
| Singular | satrapy |
| Plural | satrapys; satrapies |
Sample Sentences
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Several, which occur as one Satrapy in the system given by Herodotus, are given in the lists as distinct provinces. [1864, Edward Bouverie Pusey, Daniel the Prophet: Nine Lectures Delivered in the Divinity School of the University of Oxford, John Henry and James Parker, page 413:]
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1951, W. W. Tarn, The Greeks in Bactria and India, Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition, Digital printing 2010, page 1,
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The Seleucid empire in its turn was still, in outward shape, very much the empire of Persia under different rulers; the great satrapies still remained, their military nature emphasised by the governor of a satrapy being no longer called satrap but strategos, 'general'.
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A satrapy′s borders were generally the same as those of the previously independent kingdom, with the satrap stationed in the old capital.[…]The Great King expected two things from the satrapies: a regular supply of taxes (called "tribute" because it underlined the satrapy′s subordination to the king) and units for the Persian army when needed. [2013, Michael Burger, The Shaping of Western Civilization, Volume I: From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century, University of Toronto Press, page 30:]
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To put flesh on this concept, Joe McDonagh took himself off to the British Library to learn about Russia and its former Soviet satrapies. [2026, Sebastian Mallaby, chapter 3, in The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence, Penguin, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like satrapy
simily,
react Andy,
Hooray Henry,
roly-poly,
millijansky,
Demmy,
satrapy,
Susan B. Anthony,
dundreary,
Colby,
Lilly,
Jimmy,
'Arry,
droshky,
drostdy,
Johnny,
microjansky,
Taffy,
glengarry,
BlackBerry, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σατραπεία (satrapeía).