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Swedish
Etymology
From härad + -s- + hövding.
Pronunciation
Noun
häradshövding c
- judge and chairman of a district court (häradsrätt), the highest public official in a härad (hundred) district of the Swedish countryside; in the 1971 Swedish judicial reform replaced by the title lagman, chairman of a tingsrätt
Declension
Declension of häradshövding
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