How to pronounce “ephor”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (historical) One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings.
• (in modern Greece) A superintendent or curator.

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Similar Sounds

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