name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
margrave
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈmɑːɡɹeɪv/
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US: /ˈmɑɹɡɹeɪv/
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noun
Meaning 2
A feudal era military-administrative officer of comital rank in the Carolingian empire and some successor states, originally in charge of a border area.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Examples
- 1973: Among pulverised heads of stone margraves and electors, reconnoitering a likely-looking cabbage patch, all of a sudden Slothrop picks up the scent of an unmistakable no it can’t be yes it is it’s a REEFER! — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
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noun
Meaning 3
A hereditary ruling prince in certain feudal states of the Holy Roman Empire and elsewhere; the titular equivalent became known as marquis or marquess.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 4
a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Lord, noble, nobleman
noun
Meaning 5
the military governor of a frontier province in medieval Germany
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Broader terms: military governor
History
Etymology
From Middle Dutch marcgrāve (modern Dutch markgraaf), cognate with Old High German marcgrāvo (modern German Markgraf), from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”) + *grafa (“military rank”), from Latin graphio. More at mark, graft. Compare marchion, marquis, landgrave.
Across languages
Translations
52 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: маркграф (markgraf) — military officer in charge of German border area
- Catalan: marcgravi — military officer in charge of German border area
- Catalan: marquès — military officer in charge of German border area
- Chinese Mandarin: 藩侯 (fānhóu) — military officer in charge of German border area
- Czech: markrabě — military officer in charge of German border area
- Danish: markgreve — military officer in charge of German border area
- Dutch: markgraaf — military officer in charge of German border area
- Middle Dutch: marcgrave — military officer in charge of German border area
- Esperanto: margrafo — military officer in charge of German border area
- Finnish: rajakreivi — military officer in charge of German border area
- French: margrave — military officer in charge of German border area
- Galician: margrave — military officer in charge of German border area
- Georgian: მარკგრაფი (marḳgrapi) — military officer in charge of German border area
- German: Markgraf — military officer in charge of German border area
- Greek: μαργράβος (margrávos) — military officer in charge of German border area
- Icelandic: markgreifi — military officer in charge of German border area
- Italian: margravio — military officer in charge of German border area
- Japanese: 辺境伯 (henkyouhaku) — military officer in charge of German border area
- Khmer: ចៅបច្ចន្តជនបទ (chav pacchanta chɔɔn bɑt) — military officer in charge of German border area
- Korean: 변경백 (byeon'gyeongbaek) — military officer in charge of German border area
- Macedonian: ма́ркгроф (márkgrof) — military officer in charge of German border area
- Persian: مرزبان (marzbân) — military officer in charge of German border area
- Polish: margrabia — military officer in charge of German border area
- Portuguese: margrave — military officer in charge of German border area
- Russian: маркгра́ф (markgráf) — military officer in charge of German border area
- Swedish: markgreve — military officer in charge of German border area
- Thai: มาร์เกรฟ — military officer in charge of German border area
- Bulgarian: маркграф (markgraf) — hereditary prince
- Catalan: marcgravi — hereditary prince
- Czech: markrabě — hereditary prince
- Danish: markgreve — hereditary prince
- Dutch: markgraaf — hereditary prince
- Dutch: markies — hereditary prince
- Middle Dutch: marcgrave — hereditary prince
- Esperanto: margrafo — hereditary prince
- Finnish: rajakreivi — hereditary prince
- German: Markgraf — hereditary prince
- Greek: μαργράβος (margrávos) — hereditary prince
- Hungarian: őrgróf — hereditary prince
- Hungarian: márki — hereditary prince
- Icelandic: markgreifi — hereditary prince
- Italian: margravio — hereditary prince
- Khmer: ពញា (pnyie) — hereditary prince
- Khmer: ឧកញ៉ា (oknyaa) — hereditary prince
- Macedonian: ма́ркгроф (márkgrof) — hereditary prince
- Persian: مرزبان (marzbân) — hereditary prince
- Polish: margrabia — hereditary prince
- Portuguese: margrave — hereditary prince
- Russian: маркгра́ф (markgráf) — hereditary prince
- Spanish: margrave — hereditary prince
- Swedish: markgreve — hereditary prince
- Thai: มาร์เกรฟ — hereditary prince
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