grand-dukedomn.
/ˌɡran(d) ˈdjuːkdəm/, /ˌɡran(d) ˈdʒuːkdəm/, U.S. /ˌɡræn(d) ˈd(j)ukdəm/ The territory of a Grand Duke or Duchess, a Grand Duchy; the office or dignity of a Grand Duke or Duchess (also personified). Cf. Grand Duchy n.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [noun] > of grand duke or duchess
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > for grand-duke
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1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 449 To this reproof the Grand Dukedom of Tuscany answered.
1737 T. Lediard tr. J. J. Mascov Hist. Anc. Germans I. 631/1 Lithuania,..now a Province and Grand Dukedom, belonging to Poland.
1795 S. Jones Hist. Poland 418 In the grand dukedom of Lithuania, in particular, a spirit of resistance manifested itself.
1840 Christian Examiner & Gen. Rev. Mar. 87 Dr. Follen was born in Romrod, 1795, in the Grand Dukedom of Hesse Darmstadt.
1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage xliv Before the magnificence of his titles and possessions German grand-dukedoms..paled their ineffectual fires.
1901 J. Conrad & F. M. Hueffer Inheritors xi. 168 She had been attracted by his air of greatness, by his elective grand-dukedom, by his protestations.
1994 Times 29 Sept. 39/7 [The] dissolution of the country into separate grand-dukedoms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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