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marquesate

marquesate is the alternative form of marquisate.

Meaning of marquisate

Noun

marquisate (plural marquisates)

  1. The territory held by a marquis, margrave or marchioness.
  2. The state or rank of a marquis.
    • he has Mary Boleyn's word for it that the marquisate has bought Henry only the right to caress her sister's inner thigh.2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 394

Forms of marquesate

pluralmarquesates
alternative formmarquessate

Questions about marquesate

What is marquesate the alternative form of?
Marquesate is the alternative form of marquisate.

Words near marquesate in the dictionary

  1. marques
  2. Marquesan
  3. Marquesans
  4. Marquesas
  5. Marquesas Islands
  6. marquesate
  7. marquesates
  8. Marquesian
  9. Marquesic
  10. marquesina
  11. marquesinas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: marquesate (page history and authors); marquisate (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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