Definitions for eupatrid

eupatrid eu·pat·rid

Spelling: [yoo-pa-trid, yoo-puh-]
IPA: /yuˈpæ trɪd, ˈyu pə-/

Eupatrid is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 383 anagrams from letters in eupatrid (adeiprtu).

Definitions for eupatrid

noun

  1. one of the hereditary aristocrats of ancient Athens and other states of Greece, who at one time formed the ruling class.

Origin of eupatrid

1825-35; Greek eupatrídēs, literally, of a good father, of noble descent, equivalent to eu- eu- + patr- (stem of patḗr) father + -idēs

Examples for eupatrid

His father, though connected with the priestly and high-born house of the Lycomedae, was not himself a eupatrid.

It is clear that the executive power in the state (see Archon) was still vested in the eupatrid class.

eupatrid, ū-pat′rid, n. a member of the Athenian aristocracy.

Between the eupatrid oligarchy and the rule of Peisistratus there comes the timocracy of Solon.

To that eupatrid, joined before with himself, was now intrusted the command of the Grecian fleet.

It is not probable that the eupatrid families were all autochthonous, even in the loose sense of that term.

Word Value for eupatrid
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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