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adj
(of an official or feudal lord) Having local authority and possessing royal privileges that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, not-comparable, postpositional, usually
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adj
(of an official or feudal lord) Having local authority and possessing royal privileges that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign.
Subject to palatine authority. (of a territory)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, not-comparable, postpositional, usually
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adj
Of or relating to a palace especially of a Roman or Holy Roman Emperor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, postpositional, usually
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adj
Synonym of palatial.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, postpositional, usually
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Synonyms: palatial
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adj
Of or relating to the palate or to a palatine bone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, postpositional, usually
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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adj
Pertaining to the Elector Palatine or the German Palatinate or its people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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name
One of the seven hills of Rome; the site of the earliest settlement.
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name
A placename.
A village in Cook County, Illinois.
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name
A placename.
A hamlet in County Carlow, Ireland.
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name
A placename.
A town in Montgomery County, New York.
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name
The Rhine Franconian dialect spoken in the Palatinate.
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noun
Ellipsis of count palatine, a feudal lord or a bishop possessing palatine powers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, postpositional, usually
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noun
A palace official, especially in an imperial palace.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: postpositional, usually
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Synonyms: chief minister
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noun
Ellipsis of county palatine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, historical, postpositional, usually
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Synonyms: palatinate
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noun
The Roman soldiers of the imperial palace.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, in-plural, postpositional, usually
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Synonyms: praetorians
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noun
A fur cape or stole worn by women, which covers the neck and shoulders.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, postpositional, usually
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noun
Ellipsis of palatine bone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, postpositional, usually
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
A native or inhabitant of the Palatinate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare
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adjective
of or relating to a palace
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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adjective
of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives
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adjective
relating to or lying near the palate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: palatal
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noun
either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: palatine bone, os palatinum
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Broader terms: bone, os
noun
the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome; supposedly the location of the first settlement and the site of many imperial palaces
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hill
noun
(Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: palsgrave
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Broader terms: Lord, noble, nobleman
noun
any of various important officials in ancient Rome
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Roman
History
From late Middle English palatyne, from Old French palatin, from Medieval Latin palātīnus (“relating to the palace”), from palātium (“palace”) + -īnus (“-ine”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of paladin.
Borrowing from French palatin, from New Latin palātīnus, from palātum (“the palate”) + -īnus (“-ine”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to palate + -ine.
From Latin Palātīnus, from Palātium.
Borrowed from French palatine, named after German Princess Palatine Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine (1652–1722).
Across languages
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