Also woiwod-, woywod-. [f. prec. + -SHIP.]
1. The district or province governed by a voivode.
1792. Morse, Amer. Geog. (1794), 662. Great Poland … is subdivided into 12 districts, called woiwodships.
1793. State Papers, in Ann. Reg., 228. Following the border of the voivodship of Vilna.
1837. Penny Cycl., VIII. 133/1. Cracow, a republic … formerly part of the woywodship or palatinate of the same name in the Kingdom of Poland.
2. The office or dignity of a voivode.
1886. Encycl. Brit., XXI. 16/2. Multiplying the candidates for the voivodeship. Ibid., 17/2. Serban … was raised to the voivodeship of Walachia.
