English Explanatory Dictionary

landgrave

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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).
name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

landgrave landgraves landgraf

Etymology

From German Landgraf, itself from Land (“land, territory, principality”) + Graf (“count”), from *grafa (“military rank”), from Latin graphio. More at graft.

Related words

landgraviate landgravine margrave

Derived words

landgravate landgravess

Translations

Catalan: landgravi Czech: lankrabě Danish: landgreve Dutch: landgraaf Esperanto: landgrafo Finnish: maakreivi French: landgrave German: Landgraf Greek: λανδγράβος Greek: λανδίγραβος Ido: landgravo Italian: langravio Latin: comes prīncipālis Norwegian Bokmål: landgreve Portuguese: landegrave Russian: ландгра́ф Slovak: landgróf Spanish: landgrave Welsh: tiriarll
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