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s | archon |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun archon is

a chief magistrate of ancient athens.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    archon

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A chief magistrate of ancient Athens.
  • :* 1980 : Hated by the archons of Athens for his fearless condemnation of municipal graft, he was hypocritically arraigned on a charge of corrupting Athenian youth. (Burgess, Earthly Powers )
  • A ruler, head of state or other leader.
  • :* 1922 : But neither the midwife’s lore nor the caudlectures saved him from the archons of Sinn Fein and their noggin of hemlock. (Joyce, Ulysses )
  • (gnosticism) A supernatural being subordinate to the Demiurge.

    • Related terms

    * archaeo- * archaic * archaism * archeo- * archive * -archy

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