landgrave
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From German Landgraf, itself from Land (“land, territory, principality”) + Graf (“count”).
Noun
[edit]landgrave (plural landgraves)
- (rare) One holding a specific nobiliary title ranking as count in certain feudal countships in the Holy Roman Empire, in present Germany.
- County nobleman in the British, privately held North American colony Carolina, ranking just below the proprietary (chartered equivalent of a royal vassal).
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[edit]renderings of Landgraf
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county nobleman in the British colony Carolina
References
[edit]- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]landgrave m (plural landgraves)
Further reading
[edit]- “landgrave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Landgraf.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: land‧gra‧ve
Noun
[edit]landgrave m (plural landgraves, feminine landgravina, feminine plural landgravinas)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “landgrave”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]landgrave m (plural landgraves)
Further reading
[edit]- “landgrave”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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