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wildgrave

wildgrave is the alternative spelling of waldgrave.

Meaning of waldgrave

Noun

waldgrave (plural waldgraves)

  1. (historical) The head forestkeeper, or nobleman who held some power in forested areas, in the Holy Roman Empire, now Germany.

Forms of wildgrave

pluralwildgraves

Origin of wildgrave

From German Wildgraf or Dutch wildgraaf. See wild, and compare margrave.

Questions about wildgrave

What is wildgrave the alternative spelling of?
Wildgrave is the alternative spelling of waldgrave.

Words near wildgrave in the dictionary

  1. wildfowled
  2. wildfowler
  3. wildfowlers
  4. wildfowling
  5. wildfowls
  6. wildgrave
  7. wildgraves
  8. Wildgust
  9. Wildhaus
  10. Wildhaus-Alt St. Johann
  11. Wildian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wildgrave (page history and authors); waldgrave (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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