HILDEBRAND

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

• HILDEBRAND (noun)
  The noun HILDEBRAND has 1 sense:

1. the Italian pope who fought to establish the supremacy of the pope over the Roman Catholic Church and the supremacy of the church over the state (1020-1085)

  Familiarity information: HILDEBRAND used as a noun is very rare.

• HILDEBRAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Italian pope who fought to establish the supremacy of the pope over the Roman Catholic Church and the supremacy of the church over the state (1020-1085)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Gregory; Gregory VII; Hildebrand

Instance hypernyms:

Bishop of Rome; Catholic Pope; Holy Father; pontiff; pope; Roman Catholic Pope; Vicar of Christ (the head of the Roman Catholic Church)

 Context examples 

Then their talk turned to minstrelsy, and the stranger knight drew forth a cittern, upon which he played the minne-lieder of the north, singing the while in a high cracked voice of Hildebrand and Brunhild and Siegfried, and all the strength and beauty of the land of Almain.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)