• (British) IPA: /ˈvɔɪvəʊd/

voivode (plural voivodes)

1. A local ruler or official in various parts of central and eastern Europe, especially early semi-independent rulers of Transylvania.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 27, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     George Sechell […], having beene defeated in a battell by the Vayvoda of Transilvania, and taken Prisoner, was for three dayes together tyed naked to a wooden-horse, exposed to all manner of tortures, any man might devise against him […].

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Chapter 3 ↗:

     Who was it but one of my own race who as Voivode crossed the Danube and beat the Turk on his own ground? This was a Dracula indeed!

2. An administrative chief in modern Poland.

• woywod (obsolete)
• waywode (obsolete)
• voivoda (archaic)
• waiwode (archaic)
• voyvode
• voievod
• vayvode (obsolete)
• voevode
• voievode
• voyevode
• vaivoda (obsolete)
• waivode
• wojewod
• vojvod
• voievoda
• voyvod
• wojwode (obsolete)
• vaivod (obsolete)
• vojevoda
• woyewoda
• vaiwode (obsolete)
• vayvoda (obsolete)
• waywod (obsolete)
• wayvode (obsolete)
• vaywode (obsolete)
• waywoda (obsolete)
• woywoda (obsolete)
• wojwoda (obsolete)
• woivode (obsolete)
• woiwoda (obsolete)
• wojwod (uncommon)
• woiwoda (obsolete)
• waivod (obsolete)
• wayvoda (obsolete)
• waiwod (rare)
• woewoda (rare)
• waiwoda (obsolete)
• woiewoda (obsolete)
• vojevode (rare)
• woiewode (rare)
• vojevod (rare)
• wayvod (obsolete)
• woyewode (obsolete)
• woyvode (obsolete)
• voywode (obsolete)
• woewod (very rare)
• wayvod (obsolete)
• woyewode (obsolete)
• woyvode (obsolete)
• voywode (obsolete)
• woiewod (very rare)
• woewode (obsolete)

• Vojvodina

• French: voïvode
• German: Wojewode, Woiwode
• Portuguese: voivoda
• Russian: воево́да
• Spanish: voevoda, vaivoda, voivoda

• Russian: воево́да