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stadholderate

stadholderate is the alternative spelling of stadtholderate.

Meaning of stadtholderate

Noun

stadtholderate (plural stadtholderates)

  1. (historical) The office or position of a stadtholder.
    • On his deathbed he sent for his younger half-brother, Frederic Henry, the prince who would undoubtedly succeed him in the stadholderate of five provinces and the command of the army.2005 [1938], C. V. Wedgwood, The Thirty Years War, NYRB, page 194
    Synonyms:
    stadtholdership
  2. (historical) A state ruled by a stadtholder.

Forms of stadholderate

pluralstadholderates

Questions about stadholderate

What is stadholderate the alternative spelling of?
Stadholderate is the alternative spelling of stadtholderate.

Words near stadholderate in the dictionary

  1. Stadels
  2. stades
  3. stadge
  4. stadges
  5. stadholder
  6. stadholderate
  7. stadholderates
  8. stadholderian
  9. stadholders
  10. stadholdership
  11. stadholderships

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stadholderate (page history and authors); stadtholderate (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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