Definitions for praetorship

praetorship prae·tor·ship

Spelling: [pree-ter-ship]
IPA: /ˈpri tərˌʃɪp/

Praetorship is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 1215 anagrams from letters in praetorship (aehiopprrst).

Definitions for praetorship

noun

  1. the office of a praetor.

Origin of praetorship

First recorded in 1535-45; praetor + -ship

Examples for praetorship

With the like indolence he held the praetorship, and in the same quiet and silence.

The night that he was denied the praetorship he spent in play; that wherein he was to die he spent in reading.

Curule aediles were instituted at the same time as the praetorship, and continued throughout the Republic.

The praetorship of the city was a very high municipal office.

For he rose no higher than the praetorship, but published a large and not uninteresting history.

No one could be Praetor without having first been Quaestor, or Consul without having held the praetorship.

The quaestorship might be spent in one, the praetorship and the consulship were sure to be followed by a year abroad.

Caius Calpurnius, having his command continued to him for a year after the expiration of his praetorship, was sent into Etruria.

Word Value for praetorship
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