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Areopagus

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Areopagus"

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Word	Definition
areopagitenoun	(Ancient Greek history) A member of the ancient-Athenian conciliary court of the Areopagus.
heliastnoun	(historical, Ancient Greece, law) A judge in the supreme court of ancient Athens.
ecclesianoun	(ecclesiastical) A church, either as a body or as a building.
dicasterynoun	(Roman Catholicism) A ministry or department of the Roman Curia of the Holy See, whether administrative or ecclesiastical.
ecclesiastnoun	A cleric; someone (such as a priest) who administers a church (ecclesia) or other religious gathering/group.
ephornoun	(historical) One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings.
amphictyonnoun	(Ancient Greece) One of the deputies from the confederated states of Ancient Greece to a congress or council. They considered both political and religious matters.
agonothetesnoun	(historical) An officer who presided over the great public games in Ancient Greece.
apellanoun	(Ancient Greece, politics) The popular deliberative assembly in the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, corresponding to the ecclesia in most other Greek states.
pylagorenoun	(Ancient Greece) A deputy of a state at the amphictyonic council.
ephorusnoun	(historical) Alternative form of ephor. [(historical) One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings.]
athensnoun	The capital city of Greece.
acropolisnoun	The Athenian Acropolis. (Compare acropolis.)
academenoun	(poetic) An academy; a place of learning.
ephorosnoun	Alternative form of ephor. [(historical) One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings.]
hypaethronnoun	An open court.
lexiarchnoun	(historical) In ancient Athens: someone whose role it was to ensure that only citizens entered the ecclesia ("the public legislative assembly of the Athenians").
boulenoun	One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
theatrocracynoun	(historical) Government by an assembly of citizens in Ancient Greece.
athenaeumnoun	An association or institution for the advancement of learning, particularly in science or literature.