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Definition of soke in English: sokenoun səʊksōk British historical 1A right of local jurisdiction. 〈英，史〉地方司法审判权 Example sentencesExamples - In 1888 the soke of Peterborough, which retained special jurisdictions, was given its own county council, and in 1965 was merged with Huntingdonshire, before finding its way in 1972 into a substantially enlarged Cambridgeshire.
- Maud, William the Conqueror's queen, held the town and soke as part of the king's demesne.
- 1.1 A district under a particular jurisdiction; a minor administrative district.
法院司法管辖区；小行政区 Example sentencesExamples - Clear parallels can be drawn between the soke and the Northumbrian shire, yet they were not made because, according to Stenton, the soke was Danish.
- A royal estate served, in turn, as an administrative centre for a cantref, a territory including numerous townships, analogous to the English soke or primitive ‘shire’.
- The larger sokes covered wide areas and berewicks and sokelands could be either whole or parts of a village.
- For this reason the five hide units were combined in some regions into districts of 300 hides, which were called ship sokes.
- The private sokes of Stigand and Harold, however, gradually disappeared when cathedral, castle and Mancroft were raised on the sites of the sokes.
Synonyms territory, region, province, district, area, zone
OriginLate Old English, back-formation from obsolete soken 'habitual visiting of a place'. Rhymesawoke, bespoke, bloke, broke, choke, cloak, Coke, convoke, croak, evoke, folk, invoke, joke, Koch, moke, oak, okey-doke, poke, provoke, revoke, roque, smoke, soak, spoke, stoke, stony-broke (US stone-broke), stroke, toke, toque, woke, yoke, yolk Definition of soke in US English: sokenounsōk British historical 1A right of local jurisdiction. 〈英，史〉地方司法审判权 Example sentencesExamples - In 1888 the soke of Peterborough, which retained special jurisdictions, was given its own county council, and in 1965 was merged with Huntingdonshire, before finding its way in 1972 into a substantially enlarged Cambridgeshire.
- Maud, William the Conqueror's queen, held the town and soke as part of the king's demesne.
- 1.1 A district under a particular jurisdiction; a minor administrative district.
法院司法管辖区；小行政区 Example sentencesExamples - For this reason the five hide units were combined in some regions into districts of 300 hides, which were called ship sokes.
- Clear parallels can be drawn between the soke and the Northumbrian shire, yet they were not made because, according to Stenton, the soke was Danish.
- The private sokes of Stigand and Harold, however, gradually disappeared when cathedral, castle and Mancroft were raised on the sites of the sokes.
- The larger sokes covered wide areas and berewicks and sokelands could be either whole or parts of a village.
- A royal estate served, in turn, as an administrative centre for a cantref, a territory including numerous townships, analogous to the English soke or primitive ‘shire’.
Synonyms territory, region, province, district, area, zone
OriginLate Old English, back-formation from obsolete soken ‘habitual visiting of a place’. |