margraf
/mˈɑɹɡɹəf/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of margrave.
Example Sentences
- "We may ridicule the inertness of the Turk, but how can we sufficiently express our contempt for a mighty emperor, and all the dukes and electors, princes and margrafs, kings and landgrafs of Germany?"
- "When, therefore, the diet met on the banks of the Rhine, all the dukes, counts, and margrafs of the empire repaired thither, each at the head of a train of armed vassals who encamped on the plains, presenting the appearance of an army summoned to battle, rather than of a comitia assembled to choose a king."
- "Issue of these margrafs and of these knights, the Hohenzollern house owes much to both."
- "The margrafs Albrecht of Aschesleben (c.1170) and Otto I of Brandenburg (1170–84) are also distinguished by banners, the former receiving it from St Stephen, the patron of his Stift (monastery)."