FREDERICK WILLIAM

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• FREDERICK WILLIAM (noun)
  The noun FREDERICK WILLIAM has 1 sense:

1. the Elector of Brandenburg who rebuilt his domain after its destruction during the Thirty Years' War (1620-1688)

  Familiarity information: FREDERICK WILLIAM used as a noun is very rare.

• FREDERICK WILLIAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Elector of Brandenburg who rebuilt his domain after its destruction during the Thirty Years' War (1620-1688)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Frederick William; Great Elector

Instance hypernyms:

Elector (any of the German princes who were entitled to vote in the election of new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire)

Holonyms ("Frederick William" is a member of...):

Hohenzollern (a German noble family that ruled Brandenburg and Prussia)