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wayvode

wayvode is the obsolete form of voivode.

Meaning of voivode

Noun

voivode (plural voivodes)

  1. A local ruler or official in various parts of central and eastern Europe, especially early semi-independent rulers of Transylvania.
    • George Sechell[…], having been defeated in a battle by the Vayvoda of Transylvania, and taken Prisoner, was for three days together tied naked to a wooden horse, exposed to all manner of tortures, any man might devise against him[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 27, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  2. An administrative chief in modern Poland.

Forms of wayvode

pluralwayvodes

Questions about wayvode

What is wayvode the obsolete form of?
Wayvode is the obsolete form of voivode.

Words near wayvode in the dictionary

  1. wayte
  2. waythorn
  3. Wayts
  4. wayupthere
  5. Wayuu
  6. wayvode
  7. wayvodes
  8. wayward
  9. waywarden
  10. waywardens
  11. waywardly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wayvode (page history and authors); voivode (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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