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taxiarchs

taxiarchs is the plural of taxiarch.

Meaning of taxiarch

Noun

taxiarch (plural taxiarchs)

  1. (historical, Ancient Greece) An Athenian military officer commanding a certain division of an army.
    • The Taxis of the Athenian service, like the Lochus of the Lacedæmonian, was analogous to our battalion, and the rank of the Taxiarch, its commander, as of the Lochage, was nearly that of our colonel.1838, William Mitford, History of Greece, revised edition, volume 1, section IV, chapter V

Questions about taxiarchs

What is taxiarchs the plural of?
Taxiarchs is the plural of taxiarch.

Words near taxiarchs in the dictionary

  1. taxi-distances
  2. taxi-driver
  3. taxi-drivers
  4. taxiable
  5. taxiarch
  6. taxiarchs
  7. taxibus
  8. taxibuses
  9. taxicab
  10. taxicab distance
  11. taxicab distances

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