premiership
UK/ˈpɹɛmɪəʃɪp/
premiership noun: the office of a premier or prime minister.
Noun
premiership (plural premierships)
- The office of a premier or prime minister.
- 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...2018 October 28, “The Observer view on the budget and the decade of austerity”, in The Observer
- 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.”2019 June 13, Jon Henley, “'Mini-Trump across the Channel': EU media on Boris Johnson as British PM”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- The position held by the champion team at the end of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
Proper noun capitalized: Premiership
the Premiership
- The Premier League of English association football.
- Premiership Rugby, the top division of English rugby union.
premiership meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
premiership in Hindi
- premiership, vizierate
- विज़ारत vizārat
premiership in Urdu
- premiership
- وزارت vizārat
premiership in Bengali
- প্রিমিয়ারশিপ
premiership in Malayalam
- പ്രീമിയർഷിപ്പ്
Synonyms of premiership
Forms of premiership
| plural | premierships |
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Origin of premiership
From premier + -ship.
Words formed from premiership
Phrases with premiership
Questions about premiership
- What does premiership mean?
- Premiership means the office of a premier or prime minister.
- What is premiership in Hindi?
- Premiership in Hindi is विज़ारत (vizārat). See Premiership meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is premiership?
- Premiership can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce premiership?
- Premiership is pronounced /ˈpɹɛmɪəʃɪp/ (UK).
- What is the plural of premiership?
- The plural of premiership is premierships.
Words near premiership in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: premiership (page history and authors); Premiership (page history and authors); विज़ारत (Hindi) (page history and authors); وزارت (Urdu) (page history and authors); premiership (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); premiership (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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