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Definition of: archon
(är′kon) noun
1. One of the nine chief magistrates of ancient Athens.
2. One of various magistrates or other officials in the Byzantine empire and modern Greece.
3. Any ruler or supreme commander. [<Gk. archōn <archein rule]
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