premiership
/ˈpɹɛmɪəʃɪp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The office of a premier or prime minister.
noun
The position held by the champion team at the end of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
Australian usage
Example Sentences
- "There is a familiar pattern that has come to define Theresa May’s premiership. Encouraging rhetoric gets periodically wheeled out: the pledges to ease the burden on the “just about managing”; the promises to fight the “burning injustices” of social inequality. But then a few weeks later, the chancellor gets up at the dispatch box to deliver a budget or an autumn statement and it’s as if those words had never been uttered."
- "And for the EU a Johnson premiership would mean “a mini-Trump across the Channel, dedicated to its sabotage”. Britain would become “a hostile principality, built on social, fiscal and environmental deregulation.”"
Etymology
Etymology tree English premier Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English premiership From premier + -ship.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈpɹɛmɪəʃɪp/
Usage
- Australian usage
- British usage
Inflected Forms
premierships (plural)
the Premiership (canonical)