voivodeship
/ˈvɔɪˌvoʊdˌʃɪp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.51 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The office, position, rank, or title of a voivode (“a local ruler or official in various parts of central and eastern Europe; an administrative chief in modern Poland”).
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland, comparable to a province or state.
Countable
Etymology
From voivode (“local ruler or official in parts of central and eastern Europe; administrative chief in Poland”) + -ship (suffix forming nouns indicating properties or states of being). Voivode is variously derived from a number of Slavic languages including Bulgarian войвода (vojvoda), Czech vojevoda, Polish wojewoda, Russian воево́да (vojevóda), and Serbo-Croatian vojvoda, војвода, all from Proto-Slavic *vojevoda (“army leader; duke; warlord”), from *voji (“army”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue; to persecute; to suppress”)) + *-e- + *vodìti (“to conduct; to lead”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to lead”)). Sense 3 is a semantic loan from Polish województwo.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈvɔɪˌvoʊdˌʃɪp/
- British English: /ˈvɔɪˌvəʊdˌʃɪp/