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archduchess

archduchess noun: a daughter or granddaughter of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, or the wife of a son or grandson of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary.

Noun

archduchess (plural archduchesses)

  1. A daughter or granddaughter of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, or the wife of a son or grandson of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary
    • If that weren’t enough, in 1993 she married Karl von Habsburg, otherwise known as Archduke Karl of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, and the couple set up home in Salzburg, producing two archduchesses and an archduke.2007 February 25, William Shaw, “We Are Not a Muse”, in New York Times

archduchess meaning in Tamil, Tagalog, Arabic and Persian

archduchess in Tamil

பெரும் கோமகள், பெரிய கோமகனின் மனைவி, ஆஸ்டிரியப்பேரரசின் மகள்

archduchess in Tagalog

daughter or granddaughter of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary
artsidukesa

archduchess in Arabic

daughter or granddaughter of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary
أَرْشِيدُوقَة ʔaršīdūqa

archduchess in Persian

daughter or granddaughter of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary
آرشیدوشس âršidušes
More languagesFewer languages
archduchess in Thai
อาร์ชดัชเชส áach-dát-chés

Forms of archduchess

pluralarchduchesses
alternative form (obsolete)archdutchess

Origin of archduchess

From French archiduchesse, feminine of archiduc, corresponding to archduke + -ess or arch- + duchess.

Questions about archduchess

What does archduchess mean?
Archduchess means a daughter or granddaughter of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, or the wife of a son or grandson of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary.
What is archduchess in Tamil?
Archduchess in Tamil is பெரும் கோமகள், பெரிய கோமகனின் மனைவி, ஆஸ்டிரியப்பேரரசின் மகள். See Archduchess meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is archduchess?
Archduchess is a noun.
What is the plural of archduchess?
The plural of archduchess is archduchesses.

Words near archduchess in the dictionary

  1. archdruidess
  2. archdruidesses
  3. archdruids
  4. archds
  5. archducal
  6. archduchess
  7. archduchesses
  8. archduchies
  9. archduchy
  10. archduke
  11. archdukedom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: archduchess (page history and authors); archduchess (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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