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Definition of: ephor
(ef′ôr, -ər) noun plural ·ors or ·o·ri (-ə·rī)
1. In ancient Greece, one of a body of supervising magistrates at Sparta and other Doric towns.
2. In modern Greece, a supervisor of public works. [<L ephorus <Gk. ephoros <epi- over + hor-, root of horaein see]
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