Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The territory or sphere under the rule of a satrap.
- n. A nation, state, territory, or area controlled as if by a satrap: "No military legions from the West are going to liberate their Eastern European satrapies” ( John Hughes).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a principality.
Wiktionary
- n. The territory governed by a satrap.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a principality.
Examples
“The man designated to rule a satrapy was a satrap.”
“The twelfth satrapy, known as the satrapy of Sardis, or of Lydia.”
“In the town of Sardis, within the satrapy of Lydia, the young philosopher-warrior Xenophon is about to embark on a most historic mission.”
“For all practical geopolitical purposes, the Gulf monarchies are a U.S. satrapy.”
The Huffington Post: Pepe Escobar: The Myth of “Isolated” Iran
“His work survives only in scattered fragments, but the intelligence he gathered allowed Darius to add the Indus valley to the Persian Empire as the twentieth satrapy.”
“If Syria wanted its satrapy to have a real army, one capable of reining in Hezbollah and asserting government control over the country, Lebanon would have one.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on “What if the Palestinians Don’t Want a State?”
“Moscow's effort to lure Chechens into support of a Chechen satrapy has continued, but a series of Moscow-appointed rulers in Chechnya have not been successful.”
“The WikiLeaks confirm what we already know: Pakistan is a U.S. satrapy.”
“If Syria wanted its satrapy to have a real army, one capable of reining in Hezbollah and asserting government control over the country, Lebanon would have one.neurodocQuote”
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on “What if the Palestinians Don’t Want a State?”
“Cynics insist that Assad cherishes his satrapy over Lebanon far more than the prospect of regaining control of the Heights, and will thus not be easily compelled to fall for this bargaining chip.”
Stuart Whatley: Understanding Syrian Rapprochement: Optimists Versus Cynics
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘satrapy’.
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It's a trap
trap, gin, snare, deadfall, trapezium, trapezoid, trappist, venus flytrap, foothold trap, trapping pit, glue trap, trap set and 98 more...
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Your Mission: Find theTraps
List of words that contain the letter string *trap*. Some are obvious and apparent, such as trapezoid, while others are a bit less apparent, such as contrapuntist, ultraphysical, and intraperitoneal.
trapezoid, contrapuntist, wentletrap, allotetraploid, bootstrap, caltrap, unstrap, Trappist, ultraphysical, trapline, Trapt, autotetraploidy and 195 more...
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SAT list (now featuring sat, sateen, ...
sat, sateen, satori, SAT, Sat, Saturday, satay, compensate, satellite, Satchmo, Erik Satie, Saturn and 66 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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new acquisitions
found in the wild (i.e., not on Wordie!)
samara, indehiscent, paschal, rogation, wen, rete, diriment, epicene, duramen, euhemerism, objurgate, canaille and 429 more...
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A Nation Among Nations
Words taken from A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History by Thomas Bender.
filiation, tympana, terraqueous, entrepot, lineament, tout court, oikoumene, pax turcica, feitoria, routinize, numerousness, limingl and 82 more...
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Words I've learned from reading
Some words I've had to stop and look up while reading. Not exhaustive, of course, because I'm old.
virago, graminivorous, traducement, satrapy, Amphitryon, refulgent
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