MARGRAVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does margrave mean? 

• MARGRAVE (noun)
  The noun MARGRAVE has 2 senses:

1. the military governor of a frontier province in medieval Germany

2. a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess)

  Familiarity information: MARGRAVE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARGRAVE (noun)

Sense 1

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))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)