Get to know Premiership better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like position or post.
Premiership meaning
- The office of a premier or prime minister.
- The position held by the champion team at the end of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
Using Premiership
- The main meaning on this page is: The office of a premier or prime minister. | The position held by the champion team at the end of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
- Useful related words include: position, post, berth, office.
- In the example corpus, premiership often appears in combinations such as: the premiership, scottish premiership, dstv premiership.
Context around Premiership
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 6 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Premiership
- In this selection, "premiership" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, minor, telstra, speedway, winning, standard and grand stand out and add context to how "premiership" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in the premiership, a minor premiership and premiership and scottish premiership. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "premiership" sits close to words such as attitudes, borrowing and carson, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with premiership
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Aberdeen players form a guard of honour for Celtic ahead of their Premiership clash. (14 words)
All three, he said, had a drive and sense of purpose that defined their premiership. (15 words)
Ahead of today's Premiership game against St Johnstone, BBC reporter Martin Dowden spoke with the Irishman. (17 words)
After stepping up from his B team role to replace the sacked Robbie Neilson on a caretaker basis last month, Naismith led Hearts to fourth place in the Premiership with two victories, three draws and two defeats from his seven games in charge. (43 words)
A first home clash in the second tier beckons next weekend when they host Partick Thistle, a side who just missed out on promotion to the Premiership last term in an agonising play-off defeat to Ross County on penalties. (40 words)
After losing in Round 18 to Essendon, Port Adelaide won its remaining four games – including wins against minor premiership contender Melbourne and cross town rivals Adelaide to claim the minor premiership for the third consecutive year. (36 words)
What about three-time premiership winning coach Trent Robinson, or Dave Brown, the rugby league immortal and point-scoring machine, who both captained and coached the Roosters to premiership victories? (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
It was needed because no club in the Premiership has conceded more goals than Aberdeen in the Premiership this season.
The NRL Telstra Premiership Grand Final teams will be presented to Fan Fest on Thursday, September 28, while the NRL Telstra Women’s Premiership teams will appear at Fan Fest on Friday, September 29.
This was said after news of Lee Johnson losing his role after three successive defeats in the Premiership, leaving the club dead bottom of the Premiership after three games.
Tigers are bidding to win the Speedway Premiership's top flight knock out competition for the second year in a how, having beaten Kings Lynn in the final of the Premiership Cup in 2022.
After losses to the Rabbitohs and Tigers, Penrith went on a five game winning streak and set up what would ultimately be a Minor Premiership and Premiership winning season.
Bozo Mikulic is a Premiership standard player who will look even better with more Premiership standard players around him.
Scottish Premiership Charles Dunne vows St Mirren won't lose focus pursuing European dream The Buddies are looking for back-to-back top-six finishes in the Premiership.
What about three-time premiership winning coach Trent Robinson, or Dave Brown, the rugby league immortal and point-scoring machine, who both captained and coached the Roosters to premiership victories?
Son of Melbourne premiership-winning jockey Michael Clarke, Poy was also recognised for his maiden triumph in the metropolitan apprentice jockeys’ premiership after riding 32 winners in Melbourne – 15 more than his nearest rival.
After losing in Round 18 to Essendon, Port Adelaide won its remaining four games – including wins against minor premiership contender Melbourne and cross town rivals Adelaide to claim the minor premiership for the third consecutive year.
Former Geelong dual premiership winning coach and Essendon triple-premiership winning player Mark Thompson later joined Hird on the coaching panel.
Aberdeen players form a guard of honour for Celtic ahead of their Premiership clash.
Aberdeen’s Bojan Miovski just before he slipped at the moment of converting a last-gasp penalty to make it 2-2 against St Mirren in the Premiership.
A club statement announced: "Celtic Park will host another Flag Day this Saturday when the Hoops play Ross County on the opening day of the new cinch Premiership season.
A first home clash in the second tier beckons next weekend when they host Partick Thistle, a side who just missed out on promotion to the Premiership last term in an agonising play-off defeat to Ross County on penalties.
After signing a loan deal with Bristol the following year, he went on to play for them 62 times, helping them earn promotion to the Premiership in 2016.
After stepping up from his B team role to replace the sacked Robbie Neilson on a caretaker basis last month, Naismith led Hearts to fourth place in the Premiership with two victories, three draws and two defeats from his seven games in charge.
After taking out the inaugural T20 tournament six weeks earlier, the competition’s maiden joint venture cricket club then secured the minor premiership in the first full season of home and away 40-fixtures.
Ahead of today's Premiership game against St Johnstone, BBC reporter Martin Dowden spoke with the Irishman.
All three, he said, had a drive and sense of purpose that defined their premiership.
Phrases with premiership
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with premiership
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: