Definitions for satrapies

satrapies sa·trap·y

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

Satrapies is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 619 anagrams from letters in satrapies (aaeiprsst).

Definitions for satrapies

noun

  1. the province or jurisdiction of a satrap.

Origin of satrapies

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

Examples for satrapies

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

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

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

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

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

Cilicia with its metropolis of Tarsus was the fourth satrapy.

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

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.

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

Word Value for satrapies
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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