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graaf

graaf noun: a Dutch earl or count.

Noun

graaf (plural graafs)

  1. A Dutch earl or count.
    • The knights of St. John once had here their dwelling, or commandery, as it was called, but had removed in 1312 to a new building within the city of Haarlem, where they were richly endowed by Graaf William the Good, who also conferred on them numerous privileges, of which not the least was, that the...1847, J[acob] van Lennep, translated by Frank Woodley, The Rose of Dekama; or, The Friesian Heiress. A Tale. (The Library of Foreign Romance, and Novel Newspaper: Comprising Standard English Works of...
    • However, when I tell you that the Queen of England and the Duke of Edinburgh were there, and the King of Norway, and the Shah of Persia and Queen Farah Diba, and the Prince Michael of Greece, and Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, and Prince Bertil of Sweden, plus nearly fifty assorted princes and...1976, Christopher Matthew, A Different World: Stories of Great Hotels, Paddington Press Ltd., →ISBN, page 17

Examples of graaf in a sentence

  • They, them, those—the rich men, the graafs and their bullyboys, the freemen, the knights, the mercenary chiefs, the militiamen, the lords and ladies… And now he was one of them.2012, Jesse Bullington, The Folly of the World, Orbit, →ISBN, page 231:
  • And so the graafs mounted their huge steeds and fled, breaking through the enemy lines.2016, Daniel O’Malley, Stiletto, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.; London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 82:

Forms of graaf

pluralgraafs

Origin of graaf

From Dutch graaf. Doublet of graf and grave.

Questions about graaf

What does graaf mean?
Graaf means a Dutch earl or count.
How do you use graaf in a sentence?
They, them, those—the rich men, the graafs and their bullyboys, the freemen, the knights, the mercenary chiefs, the militiamen, the lords and ladies… And now he was one of them.
What part of speech is graaf?
Graaf is a noun.
What is the plural of graaf?
The plural of graaf is graafs.

Words near graaf in the dictionary

  1. gr.
  2. Gr. Brit.
  3. gr. wt.
  4. gr8
  5. Gra
  6. graaf
  7. Graafian
  8. Graafian follicle
  9. Graafian follicles
  10. graafs
  11. graal

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