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MARGRAVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("margrave" is a kind of...):
Lord; noble; nobleman (a titled peer of the realm)
Domain region:
Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The military governor of a frontier province in medieval Germany
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("margrave" is a kind of...):
military governor (the head of a government established by the military (as in a defeated country))
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