Definitions for satrapy

satrapy sa·trap·y

Spelling: [sey-truh-pee, sa-]
IPA: /ˈseɪ trə pi, ˈsæ-/

Satrapy is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in satrapy (aaprsty).

Definitions for satrapy

noun

  1. the province or jurisdiction of a satrap.

Origin of satrapy

1595-1605; Latin satrapia Greek satrapeía, equivalent to satrape-, stem of satrápēs satrap + -ia -y3

Examples for satrapy

In the battle of Gaugamela (1st of October 331) he commanded the troops of his satrapy.

I think we shall be able to find a satrapy a-piece for them, as compensation for to-night's undeserved imprisonment.

The twelfth satrapy, known as the satrapy of Sardis, or of Lydia.

I will sell for too much; for—a satrapy of all Palestine, if Artaxerxes likes my looks!

Hytaspes, the father of Darius, held at this time the Parthian satrapy.

Groskurd proposes to read “Commagene, like Mesopotamia, consisted of one satrapy.”

Ptolemy now informed him that he wished to possess his satrapy, but was ready to compensate him with a sum of money.

Thus an Anglo-Saxon community can take on the characters of an Oriental satrapy.

Cilicia with its metropolis of Tarsus was the fourth satrapy.

After the death of Cambyses, the country received a Persian governor, and consequently became a satrapy.

Word Value for satrapy
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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