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cleruchia

cleruchia is the alternative form of cleruchy.

Meaning of cleruchy

Noun

cleruchy (plural cleruchies)

  1. (historical, Ancient Greece) A form of Athenian colony in the time of Ancient Greece, under which the settlers or cleruchs retained their citizenship, and were assigned plots, or kleroi, of agricultural land, while the community remained a political dependency of Athens.

Forms of cleruchia

pluralcleruchias

Questions about cleruchia

What is cleruchia the alternative form of?
Cleruchia is the alternative form of cleruchy.

Words near cleruchia in the dictionary

  1. cleroterion
  2. cleroterium
  3. clerstories
  4. clerstory
  5. cleruch
  6. cleruchia
  7. cleruchial
  8. cleruchias
  9. cleruchic
  10. cleruchies
  11. cleruchs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cleruchia (page history and authors); cleruchy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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