eupatrid
one of the hereditary aristocrats of ancient Athens and other states of Greece, who at one time formed the ruling class.
Origin of eupatrid
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How to use eupatrid in a sentence
It is not probable that the eupatrid families were all autochthonous, even in the loose sense of that term.
It is clear that the executive power in the state (see Archon) was still vested in the eupatrid class.
Between the eupatrid oligarchy and the rule of Peisistratus there comes the timocracy of Solon.
His father, though connected with the priestly and high-born house of the Lycomedae, was not himself a eupatrid.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete | Edward Bulwer-LyttonTo that eupatrid, joined before with himself, was now intrusted the command of the Grecian fleet.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete | Edward Bulwer-Lytton
British Dictionary definitions for eupatrid
/ (juːˈpætrɪd) /
(in ancient Greece) a hereditary noble or landowner
Origin of eupatrid
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