Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The office, powers, or territory of a palatine.
Wiktionary
- n. A territory ruled by a palatine
- n. A native or inhabitant of such a territory
- adj. Of or pertaining to a palatinate or the Palatinate
Examples
“It has become a Saudi palatinate, a confederated province of Saudi Arabia, a pocket-size weasel state from which all journalists should in future use the dateline: Manama, Occupied Bahrain.”
The Guardian: Bahrain to sue Independent newspaper over articles
“Just because I was out dancing around on the Brighton Pier doesn't mean that kate_schaeffer, huboffline, and palatinate will go unscathed or unspanked into another year!”
“And today, palatinate, you are on the business end of the Sparkly Paddle of Birthday Wonderfulness!”
“Disney World is close to being an extraconstitutional entity, a business palatinate within a soi-disant democracy.”
“Outside the city, though, in the new settlements, Protestants were becoming the majority The Brouard lands lay in Nassau, a region in the top right-hand corner of Florida named by the British for the ancestral palatinate of the anti-Papist William III.”
“Chatted with palatinate on star glamour whom I hadn't seen all weekend --it's hard to bump into people here: Pyr has wisely monopolised the Hilton bar, lounge lizards that we are and Tim and Serena Powers on the big balcony on the merry joys of Disneyland.”
“Charles Augustus Christian, duke of the palatinate of Zweibrücken”
“Frederick II convinced Charles Augustus Christian, duke ofthe palatinate of Zweibrücken, to contest Austrian claims.”
“Between 1594 and 1603, Hugh O'Neill, the renegade earl of Tyrone, led a rebellion to secure his palatinate rule over Ulster.”
“Then it was held, subordinately, by the Monthault, or Montalt, family, the stewards of the palatinate of Chester.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘palatinate’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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Morthalion's Words
supercilious, kvetch, kvass, splurge, erroneous, pugnacious, macabre, gauche, conglomerate, abyss, paraphernalia, kleptomania and 285 more...
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Great Race Horse Names10
poetry in motion - words at work.
illuminator, bonk, testify to love, passion for gumbo, grimacing, above a whisper, jazz ensemble, dinner in the diner, marginal reality, scalding passion, you wont like it, umber and 216 more...
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Bits and pieces
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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Archaic (or sounds that way)
goldwine, scop, skald, tenterhook, wassail, mazer, metheglin, cyser, pyment, perry, heresiarch, palatinate and 37 more...
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unusual color-related words
Not your typical red, blue, steel grey or even burnt umber.
glaucous, fuscous, clinquant, cerulean, falu red, puce, amaranth, cerise, vermilion, heliotrope, mountbatten pink, sangria and 54 more...
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