Word Meanings - -GRAVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave.

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• SYLLABLE
  1. An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked
• FINAL
  1. Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term. Yet despair not of his final pardon. Milton. 2. Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a
• MARGRAVE
  march; mark bound, border, march + graf earl, count, lord chief justice; cf. Goth. gagrëfts decree: cf. D. markgraaf, F. margrave. 1. Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany. 2. The English equivalent of the German title
• SIGNIFY
  1. To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present. I 'll to the king; and signify to him That thus
• RULER
  1. One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor. And he made him ruler over all the land. Gen. xii. 43. A prince and ruler of the land. Shak. 2. A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding
• LANDGRAVE
  A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France. Note: The title was first adopted by some German counts in the twelfth century, to distinguish themselves from the inferior counts under
• FINALIST
  Any of the players who meet in the final round of a tournament in which the losers in any round do not play again.
• FINALE
  Close; termination; as: The last movement of a symphony, sonata, concerto, or any instrumental composition. The last composition performed in any act of an opera. The closing part, piece, or scene in any public performance or exhibition.
• FINALLY
  1. At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered. Whom patience finally must crown. Milton. 2. Completely; beyond recovery. Not any house of noble English in Ireland was utterly destroyed
• FINALITY
  1. The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement. Baxter. 2. The relation of end or purpose to its means. Janet.
• TRISYLLABLE
  A word consisting of three syllables only; as, a-ven-ger.
• DISSYLLABLE
  A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.
• QUINQUESYLLABLE
  A word of five syllables.
• DODECASYLLABLE
  A word consisting of twelve syllables.
• OCTOSYLLABLE
  Octosyllabic.
• QUADRISYLLABLE
  A word consisting of four syllables. De Quincey.
• FORESIGNIFY
  To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify. Milton.
• HENDECASYLLABLE
  A metrical line of eleven syllables. J. Warton.
• PRESIGNIFY
  To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.
• OVERRULER
  One who, or that which, controls, governs, or determines. Sir P. Sidney.
• MONOSYLLABLE
  A word of one syllable.
• ADSIGNIFY
  To denote additionally. Tooke.
• AFFINAL
  Related by marriage; from the same source.