palatinate

IPA: pˈæɫʌtaɪneɪt

The office or rank of a palatine.
A territory ruled by a palatine.
A native or inhabitant of such a territory.
(historical) Any of various historical counties palatinate
The County Palatinate of the Rhine or Electoral Palatinate of the Holy Roman Empire.
(geography) The area of the former German County Palatinate as a region of modern Germany.

Examples of "palatinate" in Sentences

Charles Augustus Christian, duke of the palatinate of Zweibrücken
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.
Frederick II convinced Charles Augustus Christian, duke ofthe palatinate of Zweibrücken, to contest Austrian claims.
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!
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.
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.