Definitions for gymnasiarch

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gymnasiarch gym·na·si·arch

Spelling: [jim-ney-zee-ahrk]

IPA: /dʒɪmˈneɪ ziˌɑrk/

Gymnasiarch is a 11 letter English word.

You can make 918 anagrams from letters in gymnasiarch (aacghimnrsy).

Definitions for gymnasiarch

noun

1. (in ancient Greece) a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities.

Origin of gymnasiarch

1650-60; Latin gymnasiarchus master of a gymnasium Greek gymnasíarchos, equivalent to gymnási(on) (see gymnasium¹) + -archos -arc

Examples for gymnasiarch

I would rather gain one prize from the Choragus, than ten from the gymnasiarch.

Wheler also gives an inscription in "honour of Callimachus, Scribe and gymnasiarch," and several others.

Rather gain one prize from the Choragus than ten from the gymnasiarch.

He becomes a cadet; again he has to fear the drill-master, the physical trainer, the fencing-master, the gymnasiarch.