Archduke

Word ARCHDUKE
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Hyphenation arch duke
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Definitions and meanings of "Archduke"

What do we mean by archduke?

In certain royal families, especially that of imperial Austria, a nobleman having a rank equivalent to that of a sovereign prince. noun

Used as a title for such a nobleman. noun

A title formerly borne by some of the sovereign princes of Austrasia, Lorraine, and Brabant, but for several centuries held exclusively by the ruler of the archduchy of Austria (afterward emperor of Austria, and now of Austria-Hungary); now only a titular dignity of the princes of the house of Austria, as archduchess is of the princesses. noun

A prince of the imperial family of Austria. noun

The son or male-line grandson of an emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. noun

A sovereign prince of the former ruling house of Austria noun

(history) The son or male-line grandson of an emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

(history) The ruler of an archduchy, in particular the Archduchy of Austria.

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The word "archduke" in example sentences

Behind the archduke were his two liveried bodyguards, armed and vigilant. ❋ Clavell, James (1966)

The archduke was a man of high-soaring ideas, chivalrous, brave even to the point of audacity, full of expedients and never daunted by failure, but he was deficient in stability of character, and always hampered throughout his life by lack of funds. ❋ George Edmundson (1889)

During this long and dreadful war, the king had suffered no disaster so terrible as this, and the courtiers now declared openly that the archduke was the cause of the royal and national humiliation. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)

On October 26th he writes thus: -- "Since the writing of my other letters, upon the resolution of the emperor and the archduke, I took occasion to go to the archduke, meaning to sound him to the bottom in all causes, and to feel whether such matter as he had uttered to me before (contained in my other letters) proceeded from him ❋ Lucy Aikin (1822)

An edict of the archduke of Austria in 1551 complained of the reprehensible activities of the Jews: “These scandalous evil actions are said to flow in good part from the fact that the Jews in numerous localities dwell and move about among the Christians without any distinguishing marks and without any difference in clothes and costume and thus cannot be distinguished from Christians nor recognized as Jews.” ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

To achieve these lofty ambitions, Napoleon needed a suitable puppet for the Mexican throne, and he had the perfect candidate: Austrian archduke Maximilian von Habsburg. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One might an archduke kill, another a handsome president. ❋ James Lloyd Davis (2011)

Melodrama arrives in the flamboyant form of an archduke who wants to buy Annabelle's miraculous box of yarn. ❋ Meghan Cox Gurdon (2012)

Four months later, in June, the assassination of an archduke in the Balkans led to World War I, which has also been called “the Third Balkan War.” ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

Furious at finding the box empty, the archduke pitches it out his castle window and curses Annabelle: "You'll never be happy again!" ❋ Meghan Cox Gurdon (2012)

Is that like an archduke sign, or perhaps a viscount sign? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The corner where Gavrilo Princip shot the Austro-Hungarian archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 is marked by plaques and a small museum. ❋ Sophie Cooke (2010)

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