habsburg
IPA: hˈæpsbɝg
Root Word: Habsburg
noun
- An Alpine castle in Aargau canton, northern Switzerland.
- A Swabian noble family named after it, which became the ruling (hereditary) dynasty of Austria, at times other countries (mainly in Iberia and the former Burgundian territories) and supplied successive (elected) emperors of the Holy Roman Empire.
- A member of the Habsburg noble family.
adjective
- relating to the Habsburg family and dynasty
Examples of "habsburg" in Sentences
- The Fall of the House of Habsburg.
- The Last of the Spanish Habsburgs.
- It was the beginning of the Habsburg dynasty.
- Be prepared for a repeat of the Habsburg reviews.
- And the fortress was funded in peacetime by the Habsburgs.
- He was the lineal ancestor of all subsequent Habsburg Emperors.
- Although Eugene was not Austrian he did have Habsburg antecedence.
- The duke was the governor of the Netherlands for the Habsburg family.
- The Habsburg years were also a Spanish Golden Age of cultural efflorescence.
- In 1477 the title fell to the House of Habsburg by dowry of Mary of Burgundy.