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Landgrave

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One holding a specific nobiliary title ranking as count in certain feudal countships in the Holy Roman Empire, in present Germany. historical
  2. 2
    a count who had jurisdiction over a large territory in medieval Germany wordnet
  3. 3
    County nobleman in the British, privately held North American colony Carolina, ranking just below the proprietary (chartered equivalent of a royal vassal).

Etymology

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

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