Word Meanings - DUKEDOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The territory of a duke. 2. The title or dignity of a duke. Shak.

Related words: (words related to DUKEDOM)

• TITLELESS
  Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
• TITLED
  Having or bearing a title.
• TITLER
  A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
• TITLE-PAGE
  The page of a book which contains it title. The world's all title-page; there's no contents. Young.
• DIGNITY
  digneté, dignité, F. dignité, fr. L. dignitas, from dignus worthy. 1. The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence. 2. Elevation; grandeur. The dignity of this act was worth the audience
• TERRITORY
  1. A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district. He looked, and saw wide territory spread Before him -- towns, and rural works between. Milton. 2. The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or
• TITLE
  The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book. 4. A section or division of a subject, as of a law, a book, specif. , a chapter or division of a law book. 5. An appellation of dignity, distinction, or preëminence (hereditary or
• UNTITLED
  1. Not titled; having no title, or appellation of dignity or distinction. Spenser. 2. Being without title or right; not entitled. Shak.
• CATCH TITLE
  A short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc.
• INTITLE
  See ENTITLE
• INDIGNITY
  Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult. How might a prince of my great hopes forget So
• MISTITLE
  To call by a wrong title.
• OVERTITLE
  To give too high a title to.
• CONDIGNITY
  Merit, acguired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence. Such a worthiness of condignity, and proper merit of the heavenly glory, cannot be found in any the best, most perfect, and excellent of created beings. Bp. Bull.
• DISTITLE
  To deprive of title or right. B. Jonson.
• DISENTITLE
  To deprive of title or claim. Every ordinary offense does not disentitle a son to the love of his father. South.
• ENTITLE
  1. To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "Commentaries;" to entitle a man "Honorable." That which . . . we entitle patience. Shak.
• BETITLE
  To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle. Carlyle.