Usually means: Ancient Spartan official; overseer role.
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  7. ephor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  13. ephor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  15. ephor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (ephor)

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.
noun:  (in modern Greece) A superintendent or curator.

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