Word Meanings - LANDGRAVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France. Note: The title was first adopted by some German counts in the twelfth century, to distinguish themselves from the inferior counts under

Additional info about word: LANDGRAVE

A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France. Note: The title was first adopted by some German counts in the twelfth century, to distinguish themselves from the inferior counts under their jurisdiction. Three of them were princes of the empire.

Related words: (words related to LANDGRAVE)

• TITLELESS
  Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• GERMAN
  1. A native or one of the people of Germany. 2. The German language. A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures. A social party at which the german is danced. High German, the Teutonic dialect of Upper
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• UNDERDOLVEN
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• COUNTERFLEURY
  Counterflory.
• COUNTERVIEW
  1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
• COUNTABLE
  Capable of being numbered.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• UNDERNIME
  1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
• UNDERPROP
  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• COUNTERJUMPER
  A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.