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palgrave

palgrave is the archaic form of palsgrave.

Meaning of palsgrave

Noun

palsgrave (plural palsgraves)

  1. (historical) A count palatinate of the Holy Roman Empire, possessing near-royal powers within his county.
    • When bound to the stake, two cartloads of fagots and straw were piled up around him, and the palsgrave and vogt for the last time adjured him to abjure.1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […]

Proper noun capitalized: Palgrave

Palgrave (countable and uncountable, plural Palgraves)

  1. A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM1178).
  2. A locality in Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
  3. A neighbourhood of Caledon, Ontario, Canada.
  4. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

Forms of palgrave

Noun
pluralpalgraves
Proper noun
pluralPalgraves

Origin of palgrave

From pāl (“stake, pole”) + Old English grāf (“grove”).

Questions about palgrave

What does palgrave mean?
Palgrave means a village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM1178).
What is palgrave the archaic form of?
Palgrave is the archaic form of palsgrave.
What part of speech is palgrave?
Palgrave is a proper noun.

Words near palgrave in the dictionary

  1. palfrey
  2. palfreyed
  3. palfreyman
  4. palfreys
  5. Palghar
  6. palgrave
  7. palgraves
  8. Palhares
  9. pali
  10. pali-
  11. palichnology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palgrave (page history and authors); Palgrave (page history and authors); palsgrave (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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