landgrave

• landgraf

From German Landgraf, itself from Land (“land, territory, principality”) + Graf (“count”).

landgrave (plural landgraves)

1. (rare) One holding a specific nobiliary title ranking as count in certain feudal countships in the Holy Roman Empire, in present Germany.
2. County nobleman in the British, privately held North American colony Carolina, ranking just below the proprietary (chartered equivalent of a royal vassal).

• landgraviate
• landgravine
• margrave

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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landgrave m (plural landgraves)

1. landgrave

• “landgrave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from German Landgraf.

• Hyphenation: land‧gra‧ve

landgrave m (plural landgraves, feminine landgravina, feminine plural landgravinas)

1. landgrave

• landgraviato
• landgraviado

• “landgrave”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024

landgrave m (plural landgraves)

1. landgrave

• “landgrave”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16