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–noun

1.	a higher magistrate in ancient Athens.

2.	any ruler.

[Origin: 1650–60; < Gk árchōn magistrate, ruler, n. use of prp. of árchein to be first, rule; see archi-

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ar·chon·ship, noun

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n.

A high official; a ruler.
One of the nine principal magistrates of ancient Athens.
An authoritative figure; a leader: archons of cultural modernism.

[Latin archōn, from Greek arkhōn, from present participle of arkhein, to rule.]

ar'chon·ship' n.

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archon

one of the nine chief magistrates of ancient Athens, 1659, from Gk. arkhon "ruler," prp. of arkhein "to rule," from PIE *arkhein- "to begin, rule, command," a "Gk. verb of unknown origin, but showing archaic Indo-European features ... with derivatives arkhe

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Archon

Ar"chon\, n. [L. archon, Gr. ?, ?, ruler, chief magistrate, p. pr. of ? to be first, to rule.] (Antiq.) One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by pre["e]minence, the first of the nine chief magistrates. -- Ar*chon"tic, a.

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