landgrave

• landgraf

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

landgrave (plural landgraves)

1. (historical) 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).

• “landgrave” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

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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 Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “landgrave”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /landˈɡɾabe/ [lãn̪d̪ˈɣ̞ɾa.β̞e]
• Rhymes: -abe
• Syllabification: land‧gra‧ve

landgrave m (plural landgraves)

1. landgrave

• “landgrave”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025